B.C. 667.—We find Nergal-sarra-nacir lending "four manehs of silver, according to the maneh of Carchemish."—Ibid.
c. B.C. 524.—"Cambyses received the Libyan presents very graciously, but not so the gifts of the Cyrenaeans. They had sent no more than 500 minae of silver, which Cambyses, I imagine, thought too little. He therefore snatched the money from them, and with his own hand scattered it among the soldiers."—Herodot. iii. ch. 13 (E.T. by Rawlinson).
c. A.D. 70.—"Et quoniam in mensuris quoque ac ponderibus crebro Graecis nominibus utendum est, interpretationem eorum semel in hoc loco ponemus: ... mna, quam nostri minam vocant pendet drachmas Atticas c."—Pliny, xxi., at end.
c. 1020.—"The gold and silver ingots amounted to 700,400 mans in weight."—Al 'Utbi, in Elliot, ii. 35.
1040.—"The Amír said:—'Let us keep fair measure, and fill the cups evenly.'... Each goblet contained half a man."—Baihaki, ibid. ii. 144.
c. 1343.—
| "The Mena of Sarai makes in Genoa weight | lb. 6 oz. 2 |
| The Mena of Organci (Urghanj) in Genoa | lb. 3 oz. 9 |
| The Mena of Oltrarre (Otrār) in Genoa | lb. 3 oz. 9 |
| The Mena of Armalecho (Al-maligh) in Genoa | lb. 2 oz. 8 |
| The Mena of Camexu (Kancheu in N.W. China) | lb. 2" |
| Pegolotti, 4. | |
1563.—"The value of stones is only because people desire to have them, and because they are scarce, but as for virtues, those of the loadstone, which staunches blood, are very much greater and better attested than those of the emerald. And yet the former sells by maos, which are in Cambay ... equal to 26 arratels each, and the latter by ratis, which weigh 3 grains of wheat."—Garcia, f. 159v.
1598.—"They have another weight called Mao, which is a Hand, and is 12 pounds."—Linschoten, 69; [Hak. Soc. i. 245].
1610.—"He was found ... to have sixtie maunes in Gold, and euery maune is five and fiftie pound weight."—Hawkins, in Purchas, i. 218.