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Sossos means (history, Babylon) A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years..
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/ˈsɒsəs/ · noun
(history, Babylon) A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years..
February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.
Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years
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February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.
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