Tomolo

Tomolo (plural tomoli; also tumolo; from the Arabic: Arabic thumn one eighth) was both an ancient grain measure that was used in southern Italy before the decimal metric system was adopted, and a measure of area for agricultural land in central and southern Italy. For both cases there were different values and subdivisions in smaller dimensions, which have been handed down as follows:

Grain measure

Sicily

with wheat

1 tomolo = 4 quarti = 6 modillo = 872 ⅛ Parisian cubic inches
1 Modillo = 145 7/20 Parisian cubic inches = 2 8/9 liters

with legumes

1 tomolo = 4 quarti = 1085 Parisian cubic inches = 21.5 liters

Naples

1 Tomolo = 2 Mezzo tomoli / Mezzetta = 4 Quarti = 24 Misure = 24 Boccali / Maß = 96 Quartarole = 3 Cubic Palmi = 55.5451 liters

The larger unit was the Stopello and corresponded to ⅛ Tomolo with 55.23 liters.

36 tomoli = 1 carro

Palermo

In Palermo it was

1 tomolo = 1 cubic palmi = 17.193 liters (17.357 liters)

One compared in the trade by changing the number of liters

16 Sicilian tomoli = 5 Neapolitan tomoli
1 Sicilian tomolo = 17.358 liters

Area measure

Abruzzo

1 salma = 12.096 m² = 1.20 ha = 3 tomoli
1 tomolo = 4032 m² = 2 mezzetti
1 mezzetto = 2016 m² = 2 coppe
1 coppa = 1008 m² = 6 misure
1 misura = 168 m²

literature

Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.
Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 347.

Individual evidence

↑ tómolo. In: Treccani.it. Retrieved May 24, 2017 (Italian).
↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 535.
^ Association of practical merchants: Latest illustrated trade and goods dictionary or. Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 304.
^ Lino Bellizzi: Villa Badessa, Oasi orientale in Abruzzo. 1 ^ Edizione . Tracce, Pescara 1994, pp. 60 (Italian).

[1] tómolo. In: Treccani.it. Retrieved May 24, 2017 (Italian).

[2] Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 535.

[3] Association of practical merchants: Latest illustrated trade and goods dictionary or. Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 304.

[4] Lino Bellizzi: Villa Badessa, Oasi orientale in Abruzzo. 1 ^ Edizione . Tracce, Pescara 1994, pp. 60 (Italian).