Details

Subjects:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Roots, Numerical -- Early works to 1800.
Sumerian language -- Texts.
Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens.
Cuneiform tablets.
Roots, Numerical.

Form/Genre:

Inscriptions.
Tables (documents)
Tablets.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Specimens.

Language:

Sumerian.

Summary:

Table of numbers whose square roots are integers, in Babylonian sexagesimal notation, on a clay tablet that has been partially baked. A line of text has been lost at the bottom of the obverse, where a chipped area has been smoothed off.

Notes:

Ms. inscription.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Inscribed in 24 lines on 2 sides of the tablet.
Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
Origin: Inscribed in southern Mesopotamia in the 20th or 19th century B.C.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 34 (LJS 99).

Cited as:

LJS 99

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

849522488

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page