kortob [Hebrew]

A Talmudic unit of liquid capacity = 1/64th of a log.

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In the case of liquid measures one may make a hin, half a hin, a third of a hin, a quarter of a hin, a log, half a log, a quarter [of a log], an eighth [of a log] and an eighth of an eighth [of a log] which is a kortob.

Israel W. Slotkin, translator.
Baba Bathra, 90a
in Isidore Epstein, editor.
The Babylonian Talmud. Seder Nezikin, volume 2.
London: The Soncino Press, 1935 (reprint ed. 1978).
Page 370.

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