Persia
| Place |
Local | Imperial | Metric kg |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lb. | oz. | dr. | |||
| Bandar-Abbas ("Gamron") |
tabrézy | 6 | 12 | 0 | 3.0617 |
| sháhy | 13 | 8 | 0 | 6.1235 | |
| Bushehr | 720 mithqals | 7 | 10 | 15 | 3.4852 |
| Shiraz | 600 mithqals | 12 | 10 | 14.4 | 5.7521 |
| Tabriz | 300 mithqals | 6 | 5 | 7.2 | 2.8761 |
| Source: Kelly's Oriental Metrology (1832) | |||||
The two main commercial weights in Persia were the tabrézy man ( من تبریز ), literally the man of Tabriz, and the sháhy man ( من شاء ), literally the Shah's man, which was twice as large. The sháhy man was particularly used in Shiraz and Isfahan. Kelly also distinguishes a man used for copra and "provisions" at Gamron (modern Bandar-Abbas) of 7 lb. 12 oz. av. (3.5153 kg).
The United Nations Statistical Office found a wide range of values for the man in Iran in 1966, from 3 kg to 53 kg. The man was divided into mithqals (the number depending on the locality): larger subdivisions included the abbassi and the ratl. The term batman appears to be reserved for the tabrézy man, approximately 2.969 kg in 1966.
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