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Aegean Linear B
units of mass, ~1450 – 1200 bce

The magnitude of the 𐄷 has been estimated from a marked standard weight found at Knossos and from the weights of ingots. The finds suggest a weight around 29,000 grams. Obviously, the estimates of mass are rough, and here they are rounded off.

				𐄷 or L (talent)
	𐂝 or LANA (wool only)				10
	𐄸 or M (double mina)			3	30
𐄹 or N (half mina)			4	12	120
	𐄺 or P	12	48	144	1440
𐄻 or Q	6?	72	288	864	8640
3.36? g	20 g	250 g	1 kg	3 kg	29-30 kg

for further reading

Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Fractional quantities in Minoan bookkeeping.
American Journal of Archaeology, vol 54, no. 3, pages 204-222 (July - Sept., 1950).

J. T. Killen.
The Wool Industry of Crete in the Lower Bronze Age.
Annual of the British School of Athens, vol. 59, pages 1-15. (1964)

John Chadwick.
Documents in Mycenaean Greek. 2nd edition.
First edition by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick.
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 1973.

See in particular pages 53-58.

Maurizio Del Freo, Marie-Louise Nosch and Françoise Rougemont.
The terminology of textiles in the Linear B tablets, including some considerations on Linear A logograms and abbreviations.
In
C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch, editors.
Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC.
Ancient Textiles Series, vol. 8.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010.

Aegean Linear B units of mass, ~1450 – 1200 bce

for further reading

Aegean Linear B
units of mass, ~1450 – 1200 bce