khoinix

plural khoinikes

1. alternativeAlternative form of choenix.

   The consequent total of rations required is 948 khoinikes, which corresponds exactly with the amount of the first two commodities listed in the accompanying record on the same tablet.

   1975, Actes de la XIIe Conférence Internationale d’Études Classiques “Eirene”, →ISBN, page 745

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   “And I heard as a voice in the middle of the four animals saying, A khoinix of wheat for a denarius, and three khoinices of barley for a denarius; and the oil and the wine thou shalt not hurt.”

   1872, James Glasgow, The Apocalypse Translated and Expounded, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […], page 204

   This would bring the weaver’s pay at the Bucheum to just over 1½ drachmæ a day—a figure which corresponds so closely with that quoted by Westermann that it goes a long way towards justifying the assumption of an artaba of 24 khoinikes.

   1934, Robert Mond, Oliver Humphrys Myers, The Bucheum, page 157

   One would be inclined to think that the okteus would comprise 15 khoinikes and that the primary sub-unit could be divided into 8 parts before reaching the khoinix. Following this reasoning, the Minoan primary sub-unit must have comprised 10 or 12 khoinikes.

   1971, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London, number 18, page 22

   (2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity. The unit usually recorded was the medimnos, and this was divided for purposes of issue into 120 portions or khoinikes, the khoinix corresponding to a standard day's ration for one person, […]

   1975, Atti

   […] accepting the Mycenaean month at thirty days, the ration is ¹⁄₂₀ × ¹⁄₃₀ × 400 = ⅔ khoinikes per man per diem. The same ration follows for the men of KN Am 819, the ‘boys’ receiving of ⅘ of that amount. Again, the women at Pylos received ⅔ of a khoinix, half in wheat and half in figs, as on HT 94, and the children half of that ration.

   1977, Kadmos, volume 16, page 30