Assertion: unit | /r/HasProperty | the schoenus
Facets:
value: from the greek
type: OTHER
value: for "rush rope"
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Other units include the schoenus (from the Greek for "rush rope") used for the distances in Isidore of Charax's Parthian Stations (where it had a value around 5 km or 3 miles) and in the name of the Nubian land of Triacontaschoenus between the First and Second Cataracts on the Nile (where it had a value closer to 10.5 km or 6 1⁄ 2 miles).