The miná was divided also on the Roman uncial system:
1/12 = an ounce = 455·28 grs.; of this
1/12 = a double-scruple = 37·94 grs.; of this
1/12 = a carat of 3·1616 grs.
The carat 1/144 ounce, is exactly, to 1/100 grain, the jeweller’s carat of to-day in European countries.
What could be the reason for this talent?
Its miná was half an Alexandrian miná; its drachm was a quarter-shekel.
Don V. V. Queipo[[6]] considered that the half Beládi cubit had been produced from it by involution, taking the side of a cubical vessel containing half an Alexandrian talent of water and then doubling this new foot to make a new cubit. Its water-volume = 1302·5 c.i. gives as cube root 10·9207 inches, almost exactly half the Beládi cubit = 21·888 inches. But the Beládi cubit being 1/7200 of a Parasang is sufficient evidence of its origin. I consider that the close coincidence of the half-cubit with the side of a cubic vessel containing an Alexandrian half-talent of water led the Ptolemies to institute this smaller talent, as if it had been evolved from the Beládi foot in the same way that the Greek-Asiatic talent had been evolved from the Persian foot or half-cubit.
3. The Greek-Asiatic Talent
After the institution of the great Assyrian or Persian cubit a new talent was necessarily evolved from it.