Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Official prices for major public services and commodities were inscribed by the Ur III ruler Shulgi c. 2100 BC, Bilalama of Eshnunna c. 1900 BC… The prologue and beginning of the laws of Ur-Nammu’s son Shulgi are broken off from the surviving tablet, but they probably started like those of Bilalama of Eshnunna two centuries later, by establishing a parity between barley and silver. Lines 143–149 reported that Ur-Nammu “fashioned the bronze sila-measure, he standardized the one-mina weight, and standardized the stone-weight of a shekel of silver in relation to one mina” (ANET II: p. 32)
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