Waggia

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Waggia was a mass unit in Ethiopia .

1 Waggia = 480 Uqiyat / Waket / ounce ≈ 13.5 kilograms (for ivory )
1 Waggia = 640 Uqiyat ≈ 18 kilograms (for rubber )

literature

Academic association hut: hut: the engineer's pocket book. W. Ernst, Berlin 1954, p. 1547.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 340.