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<DIV><BR>| The water tunnel is 525m long. The inscription says that it's
1,200<BR>| amos. Which would be 53.75cm per ammah. However, 1,200 is a round
number,<BR>| meaning that the real value could be in the range of 1150 to 1250.
The<BR>| largest possible ammah in late bayis rishon, given the
inscription,<BR>| would be 45.7cm. 44.4cm or anything else the floor tiles might
have been<BR>| is in range, even assuming the squares are the whole
design.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>The largest possible ammah, at 45.7 cm, would be 18 inches, which is the
number I've always used to translate ammos into modern
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff size=2
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