sossos

noun2

1. •
   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.
2. •
   (no longer used, rare) One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.