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The talent was a unit of weight that was introduced in Mesopotamia at the end of the 4th millennium BC, and was normalized at the end of the 3rd millennium during the Akkadian-Sumer phase, divided into 60 minas or 3,600 shekels. In classical antiquity, the talent (Latin: talentum, from Ancient Greek: τάλαντον, talanton "scale, balance, sum") was the heaviest of common weight units for commercial transactions. An Attic weight talent was approximately 26.0 kilograms (57 lb 5 oz) (approximately the mass of water of an amphora), and a Babylonian talent was 30.2 kg (66 lb 9 oz). Ancient Israel adopted the Babylonian weight talent, but later revised it. The heavy common talent, used in New Testament times, was 58.9 kg (129 lb 14 oz). A Roman talent (divided into 100 librae) was 1+1⁄3 Attic talents, approximately 32.3 kg (71 lb 3 oz); an Egyptian talent was 80 librae, approximately 27 kg (60 lb). (Wikipedia).
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