Editing Stone (unit) (section)

==Antiquity==
[[File:Weight-stone.jpg|thumb|Stone weight with [[Darius the Great]]–era tri-lingual inscription. 9,950g ]]
[[File:RomanStoneWeight.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Eschborn]] Museum's 2nd-century stone weight of 40 [[Roman pound]]s (c.&nbsp;13&nbsp;kg), beside an [[ISO/IEC 7810#ID-1|ID-1]]-sized card for scale]]
The name "stone" derives from the historical use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity. The [[Hebrew Law|Biblical law]] against the carrying of "diverse weights, a large and a small"<ref>{{Bibleverse||Deuteronomy|25:13|KJV}}</ref> is more literally translated as "you shall not carry a stone and a stone ({{lang|he|אבן ואבן}}), a large and a small". There was no standardised "stone" in the ancient Jewish world,<ref>{{cite book
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ocAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA501
|title = The Pictorial Bible; being the Old and New Testaments according to the Authorised Version ... to which are added Original Notes 
|location = London
|publisher = Charles Knight & Co
|year = 1836
}}</ref> but in Roman times stone weights were crafted to multiples of the [[Roman pound]].<ref>{{cite book
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m3JZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107
|title = Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, Volumes 3-4
|first1 = Bernard
|last1 = de Montfaucon
|first2 = David
|last2 = Humphreys
|pages = 107–109
|year = 1722
|location = London}}</ref> Such weights varied in quality: the [[Yale Medical Library]] holds 10- and 50-pound examples of polished [[serpentine subgroup|serpentine]],<ref>for example:<br />{{cite journal
|title = Two Remarkable Roman Stone Weights in the Edward C. Streeter Collection at the Yale Medical Library
|first1 = Bruno
|last1 = Kisch
|journal = Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 
|year = 1956
|volume = XI
|number = 1
|pages = 97–100
|doi=10.1093/jhmas/xi.1.97|pmid = 13295580
}}</ref> while a 40-pound example at the [[Eschborn]] Museum is made of sandstone.<ref>A Roman stone weight of 40 librae is on exhibition in the [[Eschborn]] town museum (Germany). Retrieved 12 March 2012</ref>