Talent (measurement)

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The talent was a unit of weight that was introduced in Mesopotamia at the end of the 4th millennium BC, and was normalized at the end of the 3rd millennium during the Akkadian-Sumer phase.

Akkadian talent[]

The Akkadian talent was called kakkaru[1][2] in the Akkadian language,[3] corresponding to Biblical Hebrew kikkar כִּכָּר (translated to Greek τάλαντον 'talanton' in the Septuagint,[4] English 'talent'), to Ugaritic kkr (