Citation Needed - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Citation Needed
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Powell (1977) noted that the Middle Babylonian word for 1/8 shekel, bitqu (literally “cutting”), suggests silver rings and coils, and may originally have denoted “a piece of standard size cut off from such a silver coil.”
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