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In Armenia, Byzantine-Sassanid times, a unit of mass, = 4 kerations, about 756 milligrams. Manandian arrived at this estimate through 1 keration = ¹⁄₂₄ dahekan; 1 dahekan = ¹⁄₇₂ Byzantine litra of (according to Decourdemanche, 1909) 326.4 grams.
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.
Page 117.
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