Details

Subjects:

Akkadian language -- Texts.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Multiplication -- Tables -- Early works to 1800.
Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens.
Cuneiform tablets.
Multiplication.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Akkadian.

Summary:

Multiplication table for the number 40, in Babylonian sexagesimal notation, on an unbaked clay tablet. Surfaces somewhat worn.

Notes:

Ms. inscription.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Inscribed in 23 lines on 2 sides of the tablet.
Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
Origin: Inscribed in Babylonia in the 19th or 18th century B.C.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 35 (LJS 270).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 270.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

849528488

Web link:

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