Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

Verify Citation

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Paragraph 51 laid down that if a debtor “does not have silver, he will pay the merchant in barley or sesame in accordance with the ratio fixed by the ruler,” that is, “by the royal simdatu.”

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