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Fishing from the Earliest Times

Note 913 — Chapter XXXII · THE EARLIEST RECORDED CONTRACT OF FISHING

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Two contracts (in 5th year of Darius II.) contain provisions that in case “of any fish being lifted,” i.e. stolen, the keeper has to pay a fine of 10 shekels, and in second case to compensate owner. Revue d’Assyriologie, vol. IV., pp. 182-183, by V. Scheil.

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