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 minas = 6,000 drachmas, about 25.8 kilograms. |
A unit of value, the value of a quantity of gold or silver weighing one talent.
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