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II.: MEASURES OF CAPACITY - Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters [1904]

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Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904).

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II.

MEASURES OF CAPACITY

Early Scale
1 GIN=180 šê (?).
1 ḲA=60 GIN.
1 GUR=300 ḲA.
Later Scale
1 GUR=180 ḲA.