Adult workers received standard rations of 30 to 40 pints of barley per month while children received 20; the barley was distributed as rations to about 200 workmen and their children. This scribe was clearly highly trained in this art. From Girsu, Mesopotamia, Iraq. Early Dynastic III, year 4 of King Uruinimgina of Lagash, circa 2351-2342 BCE. (The British Museum, Iraq)
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