Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A measure of capacity which appears to have originated in Egypt, where it had under the Pharaohs a capacity of 36.176 liters.
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A grievous famine likewife raged in Egypt, infomuch that an artaba, or three Roman bufhels and a half of flour was fold for eighty dinars.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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