Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Chemé

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Chemé

（χήμη).

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A cockle-shell.

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A measure of capacity, which appears to have varied from 0.04 pint to 0.016 pint. The symbol for it is See F. Hultsch, Metrologici Scriptores, s. v. χήμη.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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