khoinix

Example Sentences

• "“And I heard as a voice in the middle of the four animals saying, A khoinix of wheat for a denarius, and three khoinices of barley for a denarius; and the oil and the wine thou shalt not hurt.”"
• "This would bring the weaver’s pay at the Bucheum to just over 1½ drachmæ a day—a figure which corresponds so closely with that quoted by Westermann that it goes a long way towards justifying the assumption of an artaba of 24 khoinikes."
• "One would be inclined to think that the okteus would comprise 15 khoinikes and that the primary sub-unit could be divided into 8 parts before reaching the khoinix. Following this reasoning, the Minoan primary sub-unit must have comprised 10 or 12 khoinikes."
• "The consequent total of rations required is 948 khoinikes, which corresponds exactly with the amount of the first two commodities listed in the accompanying record on the same tablet."
• "(2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity. The unit usually recorded was the medimnos, and this was divided for purposes of issue into 120 portions or khoinikes, the khoinix corresponding to a standard day's ration for one person, […]"
• "[…] accepting the Mycenaean month at thirty days, the ration is ¹⁄₂₀ × ¹⁄₃₀ × 400 = ⅔ khoinikes per man per diem. The same ration follows for the men of KN Am 819, the ‘boys’ receiving of ⅘ of that amount. Again, the women at Pylos received ⅔ of a khoinix, half in wheat and half in figs, as on HT 94, and the children half of that ration."