Arbage

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Arbage , Harbeha (Harbaia), was the pitcher for oil in Tripoli . Oil was often sold by weight.

  • Weight 1 arbage = 8 ½ oken at 1.2208 kilograms each
  • Volume 1 arbage = 11.64 liters
  • Volume 1 arbage = 6 caraffa = 10.731 liters (other source)

literature

  • R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting methods and time values. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the bills of exchange and banking and the usages of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1266.