Culleus (unit)

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The culleus , also culeus, culeum, culleum , in the sense of sack, hose, was an ancient Roman measure of volume and liquid.

  • 1 culleus = 520.8065 liters (= 519.9494 liters)
  • 1 Culleus = 20 Amphora / Quadrantale = 25920 Parisian cubic inches = 362 measures (Swiss)

The dimensional chain was:

  • 1 Culleus = 20 Amphora = 40 Urns = 160 Conatus / Congien = 960 Sextariums = 1920 Hemina = 3840 Quartarius = 7680 Acetabula = 11520 Cyanthus = 46080 Ligulae (spoons)
  • 1 culleus = 960 sextariums

The sextarius was constant halving in Hemina, Quartarius, acetabulum , and Cyanthus Lingula divided

Although the measure was at the top of the chain, the standard measure was the amphora . Pure water was decisive for the weight.

literature

  • Friedrich Otto Hultsch: Greek and Roman metrology. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1862.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Oskar Mothes : Illustrated Building Lexicon. Issue 15, Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1864, p. 514.
  2. ↑ Johann Michael Leuchs: Der Contorwissenschaft ... Part: the instruction to calculate all incidents in the trade, in common and higher business with insight, containing. The latest in money, coin, mass and weight customers for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Volume 3, Verlag E. Leuchs and Comp., Nuremberg 1834, p. 173.
  3. ↑ JM Doldm: Ratio of the coins, dimensions, etc. Weights of all countries to the new Swiss. J. Weilenmann, Uster 1853, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Karl Philipp Funke: New Real School Lexicon, containing the auxiliary sciences necessary to explain the old classics, primarily geography, history, philosophy, antiquities and mythology. Volume 1, school bookshop, Braunschweig 1800, p. 1030.
  5. ^ Gustav Karsten, Friedrich Harms, Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer: Introduction to Physics. Volume 1, Leopold Voss, Leipzig 1869, p. 435.