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[Table of integer square roots].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 99
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sumerian
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Roots, Numerical--Early works to 1800.
- Roots, Numerical.
- Sumerian language--Texts.
- Sumerian language.
- Cuneiform tablets--Specimens.
- Cuneiform tablets.
- Genre:
- inscriptions
- tables (documents)
- tablets (information artifacts)
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Specimens.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 clay tablet ; 48 x 65 mm
- Production:
- [Iraq], [between 1999 and 1800 B.C.]
- Language Note:
- 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.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 849522488
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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