Pontes (unit)

Pontes , also Mares or Ponts-Mares , was an Egyptian measure of volume, especially for liquids. The measure with about 18,154 Viennese measure was a smaller one from the Artaba .

• 1 Pontes = 80 Parisian cubic inches = 1⅗ liter

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Ferdinand Roth: Charitable Lexicon. Ernst Christoph Grattenauer, Nuremberg 1791, p. 235
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 256