Amma
ἄμμα
Amma (ἄμμα), a measure of length, equal to forty πήχεις (cubits) or sixty πόδες (feet). It was used in measuring land. (Hero, de Mensuris; Hultsch, Metrol. p. 36.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.