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In this way Ibrahim gathered upwards of 60,000 ardebs from the Blue and White Niles.

Under Nebuchadnezzar we find 12 qas, or the third part of an ardeb, of sesame sold for half a shekel, which would make the cost of a single quart a little more than a penny.

Wheat is now 400 piastres the ardeb up here; the little loaf, not quite so big as our penny roll, costs a piastre—about three-half-pence—and all in proportion. 

Once no less than eighty thousand ardebs of grain was stolen from the arsenal.

The ardeb, like most measures in this country of commercial confusion, varies greatly according to the grain for which it is used.