Chus (unit)

The Chus was a unit of volume (measure of capacity) in ancient Greece . The name was derived from the word for jug , jug (see also Chous ).

Kotylä / Kotyle was a smaller measure and can be translated as a bowl or drinking bowl. * 1 = 12 Chus Kotylai / Kotylis (1 cp = 273.6 milliliters or 1/192 Medimnos ) = 48 Oxybapha / Tryblia = 3.283 liter

literature

• Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon: formulas and terms from physics, chemistry and technology. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-32292-920-4 , p. 328.
• Georg Agricola: German publishing house of the sciences. Selected works: Writings on mass and weights (metrology). trans. by G. Fraustadt and W. Weber, Volume 5, Berlin 1959, pp. 91, 94.
• Friedrich Hultsch : Χοῦς . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2526 f.