Artaba
The Artaba was a Persian volume measure and was intended for dry goods ( grain measure ).
The area of validity that belongs to Iran today can be described with some important trading centers, such as Tehran as the capital, Shiraz and Rasht and other places.
- 1 Artaba = 3288.8 Parisian cubic inches = 65.238 liters
The dimensional chain was
- 1 Artaba = 8 Collethun = 25 Capichas / Herminas = 50 Chenicas = 200 Sextarios
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 883
- Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 397