Acetabulum (volume)

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In Ancient Roman measurement, the acetabulum was a measure of volume, fluid, and dry, equivalent to the Greek ὀξύβαφον. It was one-fourth of the hemina and therefore one-eighth of the sextarius. It contained the weight in water of fifteen Attic drachmae.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1870).