Collothun

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The Collothun , sometimes also Collethun , was a Persian measure of the volume of grain . The Artaba was the larger and guiding measure.

  • 1 Collothum = 8.155 liters (also = 7.02 or 8.19 or 8.22 liters)

The dimensional chain for the Artaba was:

  • 1 Artaba = 8 Collothun = 25 Capichas / Heminas = 50 Chenicas = 200 Sextario / Sextarius = 56.238 to 65.789 liters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fr. Silber: The universal calculator for business transactions: Contains the conversion of coins, weights, etc. Dimensions of all countries in the world. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 72.
  2. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 55.
  3. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 24.
  4. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 397.