Roman Metric Conversion

From The Olde Cookery Book

This is only the beginning of a conversion table for measurement given in the tOCB collection. In some Apicius recipes there are information on the amount of some of the ingredients. The following conversion table translates between the Roman measurements and the ISO standard.

Volume

1 sextar	0,533 l
1 hemina	0,266 l
1 acetabulum	0,066 l
1 cyathus	0,044 l
1 ligula	0,011 l

Weight

1 libra	0,327 kg
1 uncia	0,287 kg
1 dragma	0,037 kg
1 scrupulus	0,012 kg