Translation Check - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

Translation Check

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“Treasurers, bureaucrats, foremen in a general fashion all employ public workers and know only barley” in computing rations and other outlays and revenues, noted (Lambert[1] 1963: p. 84).

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  1. Maurice Lambert, “L’Usage de l’argent-métal a Lagash au temps de la IIIe Dynastie d’Ur,Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 57 (1963), p. 84.