From:

[touregypt.net]

"The ancient Egypt's also had measurements for capacity. These included the "jar" (hin), measuring about .47 liters, the "barrel" (hekat, heqat) which was ten hinw or 4.77 liters, and the "sack" (khar), which was 160 hinw or 75.2 liters. The hin could also be divided into units as mall as 1/32, as well as into thirds. Middle Kingdom accounts refer to single and double hekat measures. Early New Kingdom (about 1550-1400 BC) sources indicate a mixed system of single, double and quadruple hekat.

Late New Kingdom sources indicate that official usage preferred the quadruple hekat, named ipt (in Egyptology cited as oipe), and four of these (sixteen single hekat) now corresponded to one khar (‘sack’). The later measurement was known as a khay"

References at bottom of page.

Dave Light.