metretes

1. pluralplural of metrete

plural metretai

1. Synonym of metrete.

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

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

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

   1928, Aristide Calderini, editor, Aegyptus, page 271

   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.

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

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

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

   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.

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

   Synonyms: metrete