In Urart, a kingdom in northeastern Anatolia, 860 bce – 580 bce, a unit of capacity. Payne concludes that “with a 66% possibility, ... 1 terusi = 28.1 litres ± 0.6 litres”.
Margaret Payne.
Urartian Measures of Volume.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, supplement 16.
Louvain-Paris-Dudley(MA): Peeters, 2005.
Page 82.
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