Cubit Definition

Cubit Sentence Examples

• The average of several cubit rods remaining is 20.65, age in general about 2500 B.C. (33).

• On the Egyptian cubits a small cubit is marked as about 17 in., which may well be this unit, as (5/6)ths of 20.6 is 17.2; and, as these marks are placed before the 23rd digit or 17.0, they cannot refer to 6 palms, or 17.7, which is the 24th digit, though they are usually attributed to that (33).

• It may be shown by a mark (33) on the 26th digit of Sharpe's Egyptian cubit = 19.2 in.

• Beside the equivalence of the hon to 5 utens weight of water, the mathematical papyrus (35) gives 5 besha = (2/3)cubic cubit (Revillout's interpretation of this as 1 cubit cubed is impossible geometrically; see Rev. Eg., 1881, for data); this is very concordant, but it is very unlikely for 3 to be introduced in an Egyptian derivation, and probably therefore only a working equivalent.

• The other ratio of Revillout and Hultsch, 320 hons = cubit cubed, is certainly approximate.