☙
☙
heml |
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Qant'âr Skandriyya, or Alexandrian qantar |
1 11/14 |
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|
hamla |
1 13/15 |
3 1/3 |
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1 2/3 |
2 1/3 |
5 5/9 |
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36 |
60 |
112 |
200 |
|||||
rotl or rottolo |
2 7/9 |
100 |
166 2/3 |
311 1/9 |
555 5/9 |
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12 |
33 1/3 |
1200 |
2000 |
3733 1/3 |
6666 2/3 |
|||
12 |
144 |
400 |
14,400 |
24,000 |
44,800 |
80,000 |
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| older value | 2.99 |
35.9 |
430.9 |
1.1969 |
43.09 |
71.81 |
134.05 |
239.38 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mid-19ᵗʰ c² | 3.15 |
37.8 |
453.5* |
1.2596 |
45.35 |
75.58 |
141.08 |
251.92 |
| just before metrication³ | 3.12 |
37.44 |
449.28 |
1.248 |
44.928 |
74.88 |
139.776 |
249.6 |
| metrified, circa 1891 | 3.125 |
37.5 |
450 |
1.25 |
45 |
75 |
140 |
250 |
| according to (1), 1952 | 3.12 |
37.44 |
449.28 |
1.248 |
44.928 |
74.880 |
139.775 |
249.600 |
* This is the English pound avoirdupois.
1. Saâdeddine Bencheneb.
Mesures et poids actullement en usage en Egypte.
Bulletin des ètudes arabes, vol. 12, page 106 (Sept-Dec 1952.)
2. Doursther, page 467. Tate.
3. Louis B. Grant.
Egyptian Weights and Measures.
Reports of the Consuls of the United States. Vol. XL.
No. 144. September, 1892.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892.
Page 136.
mithkal |
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magar |
1 1/3 |
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dirhem |
1 1/8 |
1½ |
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kirat |
16 |
18 |
24 |
|
4 |
64 |
72 |
96 |
|
48.75 |
195 |
3.12 |
3.51 |
4.68 |
Saâdeddine Bencheneb.
Mesures et poids actullement en usage en Egypte.
Bulletin des ètudes arabes, vol. 12, page 106 (Sept-Dec 1952.)
| mitkal |
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| dirhem |
1½ |
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| keerat |
24 |
36 |
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| habbeh |
3 |
48 |
72 |
|
| kamhah |
1 1/3 |
4 |
64 |
96 |
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