bēru

An Akkadian unit of length, 3rd – 1st millenia bce, = 180 ašlu, about 10.8 kilometers. . It corresponds to the Sumerian dana.

According to Segre¹, “NINDA meant also a measure of time,” 1/60th of 1/360th of a Babylonian day, about 4 seconds. The beru, = 1800 nindānu, would be 2 Babylonian hours, or as a length the distance walked in 1/12 of a Babylonian day.

1. Andre Segrè.
Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian Measure.
Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 64, No. 1 (April–June 1944)

Page 74.