khoinix

English

Noun

khoinix (plural khoinikes)

1. Alternative form of choenix.
   • 1872, James Glasgow, The Apocalypse Translated and Expounded, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […], page 204:

     “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.”

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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, Atti:

     (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, […]

   • 1977, Kadmos, volume 16, page 30:

     […] 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.

   • 1988, Minos, volumes 23–24, page 191:

     […] finally arrived at the paper in which I, for the first time, concluded that the Minoans used a medimnos of 120 khoinikes for the measure of wheat and he alleged that such conclusion was unwarranted as based upon a wrong reading of the text of the Mallia bar H20.

   • 1992, Berit Wells, editor, Agriculture in Ancient Greece: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium at the Swedish Institute of Athens, 16-17 May 1990, →ISBN, page 69:

     The same seems to have been the case for Mycenaean Greece whereby a worker was paid 2 khoinikes barley or 1 khoinix of wheat (in Classical times, a khoinix (choenix) of wheat represents 0.9 litres).

   • 1994, Acta Demotica: Acts of Fifth International Conference for Demotists, Pisa, 4th-8th September 1993, Giardini, →ISBN, page 34:

     In demotic texts thus far published the numbers of khoinices in an artaba are 28, 29 and 30. This text provides the demotic evidence for artabas of 32, 36, 38 and 40 khoinices.

   • 1994, Christopher Eyre, Anthony Leahy, Lisa Montagno Leahy, editors, The Unbroken Reed: Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honour of A.F. Shore, Egypt Exploration Society, →ISBN, page 32:

     The ϭⲁⲡⲓⲭⲉ is known to be identical with the Greek καπιθη a measure of one or two Attic khoinices. The publication of the paper I delivered at the Fifth International Congress of Demotists at Pisa in Actes du Congrès (proposed date 1994) with further examples of the kepedj in a mathematical context will prove it to be the demotic equivalent of the Greek khoinix.

   • 2018, Timothy Doran, Spartan Oliganthropia, Brill, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

     The amounts are significant: 8 choes of wine equals 6 gallons; a medimnos equals 48 khoinikes. A single khoinix was a day’s grain ration for a man in Athens.