The deben was an ancient Egyptian weight unit. The earliest evidence for deben is from the Early Dynastic Period. It was found at the site of Buto in Nile Delta.

These ingots and metal rings date from the fourteenth century BC and were found at el-Amarna. They give us rare archaeological evidence for Egypt’s earliest money system. The complete ingots weigh around 3 Deben and the rings seem to be fractions of the Deben.

Old and Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC) inscribed weights attest to units of around 12-14 grams, and 27 grams. These units seem to have been called dbn (vocalised in Egyptology as deben ) meaning ring : this is the main name for the standard unit of weight in any period.

Dec 21, 2024 · Ancient Egypt’s economy primarily used a barter system, but for more complex transactions, they relied on a form of currency known as deben and shat. These were not coins but units of weight for valuable materials like gold, silver, and copper.

Jun 15, 2017 · Goods and services were valued on a unit known as a deben. According to historian James C. Thompson, the deben "functioned much as the dollar does in North America today to let customers know the price of things, except that …

mina, earliest of all known units of weight. It was created by the Babylonians and used by the Hittites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks. Its weight and relationship to its major subdivisions varied at different times and places in the ancient world.

Oct 24, 2016 · This quartzite weight was inscribed with the name of the Egyptian king Senusret. 12th Dynasty, 1985-1795 BCE. From modern-day Egypt. (The British Museum, London).

Feb 7, 2017 · The monetary unit was the deben, approximately 90 grams of copper, and trade was based on an 'imaginary' deben: if fifty deben purchased a pair of sandals, then a pair of sandals could be traded for fifty deben worth of wheat or beer.

Aug 9, 2024 · The deben was an ancient Egyptian weight unit. The earliest evidence for deben is from the Early Dynastic Period. It was found at the site of Buto in Nile Delta.

Dec 16, 2016 · To make trade between Palestine, Egypt, and Mesopotamia easier they created a system that could have been based on the traditional Egyptian measurement known as deben (equal to three ounces). To give you an idea of how this worked, it was possible to buy a sack of wheat for one deben and the cost of a cow was about fifty debens.