Cheme

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The cheme , also called ciana , was a measure of volume for liquids and an ancient Greek measure.

One can translate it with shell . The mistrum was the amount of liquid that fit in a conch shell. The cheme corresponded to the third part of the mistrum with 0.003761 liters . Other sources calculated with the fourth part and equated it with the mistrum. A distinction was made between the large and the small Cheme. The larger one was probably used in agriculture and 1/20 part of the cotila with 0.013540 liters. The little cheme was 1/30 part of 0.009026 liters. Half the cheme was the cochleare (spoon) and was 0.001897 liters.

literature

  • Lukas de Samuele Cagnazzi, Jürgen Johann Albrecht von Schönberg: About the value of the measures and weights of the ancient Romans. Johann Heinrich Schubothe, Copenhagen 1828, p. 137
  • Heinrich August Pierer: Universal Lexikon, or Complete Encyclopedic Dictionary. Volume 5, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1835, p. 212