metretes

English

Noun

metretes

1. plural of metrete

Noun

metretes (plural metretai)

1. Synonym of metrete
   • 1928, Aristide Calderini, editor, Aegyptus, page 271:

     Applying this to I 33 we note that the 4 επι hold 3 ½ metretai, or less than 1 metretes each.

   • 1983, Ägyptische Urkunden: Griechische Urkunden, volume 15, Cisalpino-Goliardica, →ISBN, page 61:

     Aelius N.N., who is probably the lessor, has agreed to sell the olive and grain produce of property belonging to him at a price of four metretai of olive oil, three artabas of black olives, and a third of the grain produced.

   • 1996, Epigraphica Anatolica, numbers 26–29, page 139:

     […] a jar, of two metretai; a bronze jug, of four choes, and spouted cup; a tray for cups, and a second one; […]

   • 2000, Roger S. Bagnall, Documents from Berenike: Greek Ostraka from the 1996-1998 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia), Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, page 61:

     Let pass for Kallo( ) son of Haryothes, camel driver of Machatas of the men of Antaios son of Apion, 4 Laodicean jars of wine and 4 hemikadia of oil and 2 lykia and 1 Rhodian jar of sweet wine (?) and two ephesia, total 2, and 1 … of vinegar and 1 (jar) of beets and two metretai of …, total 2.

   • 2002, Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston, Mary Louise Hart, Understanding Greek Vases: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques:

     Theoretically each vase held a metretes (the largest standard liquid measure) […]