(6) There is the Egyptian custom, for which we have the evidence of Herodotus, II. 65, and Diodorus, I. 8.
6
F. L. Griffith, “Metrology of the Medical Papyrus Ebers,” Proceed. of Soc. Bibl. Arch. June 1891.
CHAPTER VI. The Gold Unit everywhere the value of a Cow.
1
Hultsch, Metrol. Scrip. 299, τὸ Μακεδονικὸν τάλαντον τρεῖς ἦσαν χρύσινοι.
2
Catalogue of Greek Kings of Bactria, p. lxix.
3
Catalogue of Greek Kings of Bactria, p. lxvii.