Note 914 — Chapter XXXII · THE EARLIEST RECORDED CONTRACT OF FISHING
Reading edition
Orientalistiche Literaturzeitung (Berlin, 1914), p. 482. This was published by Clay in Publications of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania, vol. II., Part I., No. 208. We find a receipt in the XXth century b.c. for salt used for fish supplied by a grocer, sealed by the official controller. Cf. M. Shorr, Urkunden des Altbabylonischen Civil und Processrechts, No. 256.