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Various ancient units of weight, originally based on the amount of weight one man could carry:

Palestine and Syria	3,000 shekels, approximately 49 kilograms.
ancient Hebrew	= 3,600 shekels, approximately 30 kilograms. There was also a heavy talent, twice the weight of the light.
Assyria	about 30.1 kilograms.
ancient Greece	the τάλαντον = 60 mnas = 6,000 drachmas, about 25.8 kilograms.

In ancient Greece, a unit of mass equal to the quantity of gold whose value was equal to that of an ox, about 8.4 grams.

William Ridgeway.
The Homeric Talent, Its Origin, Value, and Affinities.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 8 (1887), pages 133-158.