Untouchable or unrepeatable?: the upper end of the old babylonian metrological systems for capacity and area
This article re-examines the cuneiform evidence for the upper end of the Old Babylonian metrological systems for capacity and area. We demonstrate that the reading 1(šar2) gal šu nu-tag “one large šar2 that the hand cannot touch” is not supported by that evidence, and show instead that the phrase�...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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Iraq
Year: 2011, Volume: 73, Pages: 127-147 |
| Further subjects: | B
Abacuses
B Sumer B Reading B Cuneiform B Scribes B Metrology B Administrative records B Agriculture B Numerals B Cylinders |
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