The distinctive point
Egyptian kha (Middle and New Kingdom): a value with room for evidence
The distinctive point is the uncertainty, not just the headline magnitude. The matrix carries ± 280 m² and names the basis as ten-setjat. That keeps comparison possible without pretending that every specimen, survey, or period produced one perfect constant.
Basis: ten-setjat. Check the record source.
- smallerEgyptian setjat (aroura)10 × Egyptian setjat (aroura)
What this unit was
Egyptian kha (Middle and New Kingdom) is modelled here as a area standard of the Egyptian tradition, associated with Egypt during Middle and New Kingdom representative. The converter represents one kha as 27565 m²; its basis is ten-setjat. The matrix carries an indicative uncertainty of ± 280 m².
Within that setting, the unit belonged to a working system for land assessment, cultivation, taxation, and the description of built or agricultural space. It should be read with its period, locality, and evidential basis attached, not as a universal value shared by every culture using a similar name.
Evidence of use and sources
The working value is traceable to UCL Digital Egypt, area. Its record is classified as medium confidence and uses the stated basis rather than an assumed culture-wide constant.
Three directly pertinent excerpts from the supplied library are available.
“Finally the royal cubit of 28 digits”
Flinders Petrie, Ancient Weights and Measures, PDF p. 48. Egyptian linear subdivision
“These various lengths are evidently other standards”
Flinders Petrie, Ancient Weights and Measures, PDF p. 48. coexisting standards
“they us'd two sorts of Cubits”
Tables of antient coins, weights, and measures, PDF p. 95. historical cubit variation
Working definition
Egyptian kha (Middle and New Kingdom) is represented as a Egyptian standard associated with Egypt during Middle and New Kingdom representative.
The converter uses 27565 m² per unit with indicative matrix uncertainty ± 280 m².
How to use it
Basis: ten-setjat; confidence: medium. A shared historical name does not make this value portable to another period or polity.
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