Eckhard Unger
Male, Deceased Person
1884 – 1966
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Who was Eckhard Unger?
Eckhard Unger was a German assyriologist.
In 1916, as curator of the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, he identified and described a copper-alloy object in the museum collection as an ell or measuring rod from Nippur. Dating to the first half of the third millennium BC or even earlier, possibly the oldest known measuring device, it supposedly defines the Sumerian cubit at about 518.6 millimetres.
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