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Wool-evaluation at Knossos and N

In his comprehensive study of the wool industry at Knossos, J. T. Killen demonstrated the existence of a unit of weight (Linear Β ideogram no. 145, id) that is used for reckoning wool and no other commodity. This unit can be expressed easily in terms of the mass of other units in the Minoan system of weight-measurement, being equivalent to three double minas. The question then arises: why should there have been a special unit for wool, since the overall system on which wool was reckoned was connected with that used for all other commodities evaluated by weight? Why, indeed, should such a complication have been introduced? The identical question can be asked of the surviving documents from Nuzi. It will be demonstrated that, contrary to what one might expect from our understanding of weighing procedures developed in these two areas for other commodities, the manner in which wool was reckoned in Late Bronze Age Knossos and Nuzi was logical, efficient, and comprehensible in terms of the prevailing metrical systems.