kentênarion

In Armenia, Byzantine-Sassanid times, a unit of mass, = 100 litra, about 32.64 kilograms. Manandian arrived at this estimate using Decourdemanche's (1909) estimate of 326.4 grams for the Byzantine litra.

H. A. Manandian.
Nina G. Garsoian, trans.
The Trade and Cities of Armenia in Relation to Ancient World Trade.
Armenian Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Lisbon: Livraria Bertrand, 1965.

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