Wreath (unit)

Wreath was a Greek unit of mass (measure of weight) used in the fig trade . The Kalamat figs (from Kalamata , on the Peloponnese peninsula ) were packaged in barrels as wreath figs. For this purpose, the figs were threaded into a ring (wreath) on a reed stalk of one hundred each.

• 1 wreath = 1 pound plus 16 lots ( Prussia = 16.667 grams ) = 766.68 grams

literature

• Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 191.
• Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 9, Altenburg 1860, p. 769.