Mettar

The mettar was a Tunisian measure for liquids.

The dimensions were used for oil and wine , but the dimensions must not be confused. Other terms were mat (t) aro, metal, metallo and miter for the wine measure and mattaro, metal, metallo, metar and mistato for the oil measure .

Wine measure

1 Mettar ≈ 9 ¾ liters to 10 liters
1 mill roll = 6 ½ Mettar was valid in wholesale

Oil measure

In addition to oil, the measure was also taken for milk and vinegar .

1 metar = 2 Kolleh / Kollé = 16 Saá = 20.16 liters
1 mill roll = 3 ½ mettar

The trade of oil is done by weight

1 Mettar = 32 Rottel Sucki / Soucky
1 Saá = 635 Parisian cubic inches = 1.26 liters
2 Rottel Sucki = 1 Saá (oil Saá is not the same as the measure for grain)

in Susa had 1 Mettar = 25.2 liters

literature

Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1276.

Individual evidence

↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 491.
↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 248.

[1] Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 491.

[2] Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 248.