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:

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.