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The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

Note 300 — Chapter X · The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine.

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We also find mention of a weight called the pek, which weighed ·71 grammes (11 grains), and was the ⅟₁₂₈ part of the uten. Hultsch, Metrol.² p. 37, regards it as a provincial Ethiopian weight. Its awkward relation to the kat and uten seem to show that it did not form part of the genuine Egyptian system.

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