Missing Illustration - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Missing Illustration
Quoted text:
Numerous Sumerian weights have been recovered from archaeological contexts in the temple and palace precincts beginning around the middle of the third millennium BC. These weights typically are in the shape of ducks or other animals (Illustration 3.5)
Question 1:
Can you help us find the image that goes here, or something like it if it’s not in the public domain or creative commons? According to the author’s Illustrations list, we think this should be:
“Mesopotamian weights from third-millennium BC Lagash: The earliest known weight (of Dudu, c. 2400 BC), and duck measure, etc. (reproduced in A.E. Berriman, Historical Metrology (New York: 1953), pp. 56, 8).”
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Question 2:
Should we add a second illustration, and update the illustration numbering in Chapter 3 and its Illustrations list, to also include the second illustration mentioned in the author’s Illustrations list, for Illustration 3.5?: “A 29 kilogram octopus weight from Knossos, the capital of Crete, approximated the Bronze ingot weights from Hagia Triada (Palmer 1963: p. 110)”: Leonard R. Palmer, Mycenaeans and Minoans: Aegean Prehistory in the Light of the Linear B Tablets (New York: 1963).
See also: this query from the Chapter 3 Illustrations list.
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