Artabe
Artabe is the Greek form of a Median and Old Persian spatial measure that was used in ancient times for grain and liquids. It is of interest today in studying the ancient trade between Egypt and Rome .
The Egyptian Artabe corresponded to 4 ½ Roman Modii in Roman times. That is 1 ½ Roman cubic feet , so exactly 39 liters . This should correspond to about 30 kg of Egyptian wheat.
A dimensional chain was
- 1 Artabe = 4 In / Groß-In = 8 Kuphe / Holy In = 32 Gapagi (liquids) = 32 Oiphi (dry goods) = 64 Kyphi = 1024 Mna = 4096 Thibi
The Artabe is related to the Irdabb , which was used as a measure of measure in Egypt until modern times.
literature
- MA Dandamayev : Artabē (the Greek form of a Median and Old Persian measure of volume) . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume II (6), p. 651, as of December 15, 1986, accessed on May 27, 2015 (English, including references)
- Friedrich Otto Hultsch : Greek and Roman metrology. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1862, p. 275.
- Friedrich Otto Hultsch : Artabe . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, column 1300 f.
- Tanja Pommerening : The ancient Egyptian measures of measure , studies on ancient Egyptian culture, supplement 10, Buske Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87548-411-8 , ISSN 0934-7879
- Hans-Albert Rupprecht: A short introduction to papyrus studies. Darmstadt 1994, p. 31.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: The Greek papyrus documents of the Royal Library in Berlin. Part 1, G. Fincke, Berlin 1842, p. 280.