Abstract
The tablet BM 19027, a multi-column balanced account from Ur III Girsu and dated to the forty-eighth regnal year of King Sulgi (S 48),1 deals with several kinds of grain and their by-products. A rare mixture of numerical notations of the sexagesimal system and metrological notations of capacity appears on the left edge of the tablet. The only other known contemporaneous example of such a practice is found on the Umma tablet YBC 4179,2 which dates to the year AS 6. This article will attempt first to interpret the meaning of the hybrid notations on BM 19027, and then to propose an alternate kind of sexagesimal place value
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