ANATOLİAN WEİGHTS AND MEASURES

Anatolian Weights And Measures-Garo Kürkman

This book was prepared with the object of publishing the scales and weights in the collection of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Mediterranean Civilizations Research Institute, and investigating the utilisation and values of units of units of measurement and measuring devices used in Anatolia. The lack of a aystem of universal standards for the weights and measures used over the ages from ancient Greece to the Ottoman period, which meant that units of measurement varied in value from place to place, time to time, and according to what was being measured; and more importantly the inadequacy of comparative studies of weights and measures are serious impediments to accurate evaluation of measuring devices.