[Combined multiplication table]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Description:

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.

Language:

Akkadian

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.

Relation:

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

Subject:

Akkadian language -- Texts; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Multiplication -- Tables -- Early works to 1800; Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens; Cuneiform tablets; Multiplication

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 clay tablet; 205 x 125 mm

Rights:

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

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 301

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)