minas
- plural of mina.
Example Sentences
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There are ten Commissioners for Repairs of Temples, elected by lot, who receive a sum of thirty minas from the Receivers-General, and therewith carry out the most necessary repairs in the temples.
From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
Dromedaries are also named783 and seem to have been worth three minas apiece.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
If a people had existed who could exchange gold for all these goods, the pharaoh would have had yearly one hundred and thirty-three thousand minas of gold.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah
For 30 minas, see Assyrian version, Tablet VI, 189, as the weight of the two horns of the divine bull.
From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris
He also made weights corresponding with the coinage, sixty-three minas going to the talent; and the odd three minas were distributed among the staters and the other values.
From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
