Details

Subjects:

Akkadian language -- Texts.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Real property -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
Surveying -- Early works to 1800.
Surveying.
Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens.
Cuneiform tablets.
Real property.
Iraq.

Form/Genre:

Inscriptions.
Tablets.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Specimens.

Language:

Akkadian.

Summary:

Rounded square tablet of unbaked clay with survey information about 3 fields, including dimensions, areas, and locations relative to one another, with an irrigation channel marked by a double line running along the short ends of the fields. The other side of the tablet is very worn, with only traces of inscriptions remaining. Previously broken and repaired.

Notes:

Ms. inscription.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
Origin: Inscribed in Babylonia in the 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, May 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 34-35 (LJS 302).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 302.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

850924784

Web link:

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