[Combined multiplication table].
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 clay tablet ; 205 x 125 mm - Production:
- [Babylonia], [between 1900 and 1700 B.C.]
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k931g82 - Status/Location:
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- 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:
- Reciprocals (fractions of 60) in sexagesimal notation and multiplication tables for 50, 45, 44 4/9, 40, 36, 30, 25, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16 2/3, and 16 in sexagesimal notation, on an unbaked clay tablet.
- Notes:
- Ms. inscription.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A piece is missing from one corner; the otherwise complete tablet was reconstructed from several large fragments in the 20th century. Additional repairs made by the conservators of the Penn Museum, completed February 2014.
Layout: Inscribed in approximately 44 to 48 lines on each side of the tablet; tables are separated from each other by a double ruling.
Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
Origin: Inscribed in Babylonia between the 20th and 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, 2021. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 34 (LJS 301).
- Cited as:
- LJS 301
- Contributor:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- OCLC:
- 871172769
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is restricted.