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The Creation of Order »  Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices

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Snell[1] found that “the Sumerian word for [market] price, ganba = mahiru, occurs nowhere in the silver accounts. The normal expression in them is kubi - ‘its silver value,’ referring to the total price of a stated amount of a commodity.”

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  1. ↑ Daniel C. Snell, Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts (New Haven: 1982).
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