[Table of integer square roots]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Description:

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.

Language:

Sumerian

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.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333430; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Roots, Numerical -- Early works to 1800; Sumerian language -- Texts; Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens; Cuneiform tablets; Roots, Numerical

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); inscriptions; tables (documents); tablets (information artifacts)

Physical Description:

1 clay tablet; 48 x 65 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Sumerian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 99

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)