SpTU 4, 176 (P348769)

Tablet excavated in Uruk (mod. Warka), dated to the Hellenistic (323-63 BC) period and now kept in National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

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Museum Collection(s)

National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Museum Number

IM —

Period

Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

Provenience

Uruk (mod. Warka)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Language(s)

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	School text
Language(s)

Chronology

Period	Hellenistic (323-63 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P348769
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P348769

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Uruk (mod. Warka)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number	W 23021
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Museum Number	IM —
Accession Number

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	IM.75967
CAMS Geography of Knowledge Corpus (CAMS/GKAB)	P348769
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P348769

References

primary: SpTU 4, 176

[vonWeiher1993SpTU4] Weiher, Egbert von. 1993. Uruk. Spätbabylonische Texte Aus Dem Planquadrat U 18. Teil IV. Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Endberichte, Band 12. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
history: BagM 30 (pp. 139-163), pl. 1-2

[Friberg1999BagM30] Friberg, Jöran. 1999. “A Late Babylonian Factorization Algorithm for the Computation of Reciprocals of Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers.” Baghdader Mitteilungen 30: 139–63.
history: Unexpected Links, 8

[Friberg2005Unexpected] Friberg, Jöran. 2005. Unexpected Links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics. Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific.
history: New MCT, fig. 02.1.6 IM —

[Friberg2016NewMCT] Friberg, Jöran, and Farouk N. H. al-Rawi. 2016. New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Cham : Springer.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-10-18 at 19:14:32	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2024-06-08 at 08:42:52	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-06-15 at 20:34:30	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 09:44:24	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie; Rattenborg, Rune		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:42:50	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-11-12 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Veldhuis, Niek		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“SpTU 4, 176 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 18, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P348769.

SpTU 4, 176 artifact entry (No. P348769). (2025, October 18). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P348769 (Original work published 2006)

SpTU 4, 176 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P348769 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“SpTU 4, 176 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 18, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P348769.

SpTU 4, 176 artifact entry (No. P348769). (2025, October 18). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P348769 (Original work published 2006)

SpTU 4, 176 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P348769 (Accessed: October 29, 2026).

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	year = {2025},
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/P348769},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P348769},
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