Cuneiform Numeric Sign Three Ban₂

It denotes three units of capacity.

A 2009 study of ancient measurement gives one ban₂ as ten sila₃, another volume unit, so this sign represents thirty sila₃. Litre comparisons are approximate.

Mesopotamian measurement records reach tablets from the end of the 4th millennium BCE; that dates the practice, not this sign. In the Neo-Sumerian period, a later Sumerian era, ban₂ could qualify beer by the barley amount used to value it. The ban₂ signs run from one to five. Unicode encodes 𒑑 as one character; 3(ban₂) is transliteration, not a sequence to assemble.