Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

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PRICES AT QAHERAH.

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twelve and a half piastres to fifteen, but which will
shortly reach twenty, owing to the deterioration
of the coin.

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0
0
0

0

1

13
14
30

2
14
14

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Price of, in piastres and fodda :

Dollar, 12^ (rising to 15) piastres.
Bread, the rotl of 12 oz.
Butter, ditto
Cheese, ditto .
Milk, ditto
Honey, ditto .
Treacle, ditto
Wheat, the ardeb
Flour, the roob
Barley, the ardeb
Beans, ditto
Lentils, ditto .
Rice, the oka

Doora shamee (Indian corn), the ardeb
Doora beledee (sorghum), the ardeb
Sea salt, the rotl
Rock salt, ditto ... 0

Sugar, ditto . . . .1

White sugar, ditto . . Ip. lOf. to 2

Coffee, ditto . . . .4

Tobacco gebelee, the oka . . 13

Ditto beledee, ditto . . .1

Soap, the rotl ... 1

Candles, the oka
Wax candles, European, ditto . . 24

Linen, the drah . . .0

Cotton, ditto . . 30f. to 0

Printed cotton, ditto . . 2 p. to 4

Mixed linen and cotton, ditto . . 0

Dyed cotton, ditto . . .1

Woollen cloth, ditto . . 2

Silk, raw, the derhni . . .0

Silk thread, ditto ... 1

Silk, piece of, (allaga) . . 45 p. to 60

Pias. Fod.

4

0

10

4

32

25

24 varying.

10

0

0

0

20

0

0

5

8

0

0

0

0

10

20

0

0

20

50

20

35

0

0

20

0

0