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Artăba

（ἀρτάβη). A Persian measure of capacity, much used as a corn-measure, and containing 51 choenices, or 12 3/4 gallons, nearly (Herod.i. 192).

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

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.192
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