Tallying objects, usually stones, sticks or straws, used as an aid in calculating the price of something very expensive, ātal, oda 1, such as the price of a fine for adultery, gībuh, a set of bride-wealth payments, madāwat, price of a wine jar, a pond field.
Special tallying sticks are used for pond fields. Two identical sets are bundled and kept both by the go-between, mun'ālun, and the one who purchased the field as a permanent record of the transaction. See also Appendix 22, Pond-field Payments, footnote 2.