Snell Daniel C. Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts

Yale University Press, 1982. — 342 p. — (Yale Near Eastern Researches 8).Trade and economic life of the Ur III period (2112-2004 B.C.E.) is here revealed through a study of documents in cuneiform, the remains of a complex Mesopotamian bureaucracy that meticulously recorded many of its activities.