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BE 20/1, 025 (P230036)

Lexical tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 10201

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Lexical, Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (table of reciprocals)

Language(s)

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Measurements

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tablet
obverse
1. 2.5 12
2. igi-gal2-bi 28.48
3. 4.10 6
4. igi-gal2-bi 14.24
5. 8.20 3
6. igi-gal2-bi 7.12
7. 16.40 1.30
reverse
1. igi-gal2-bi 3.36
2. 33.20 18
3. igi-gal2-bi 1.48
4. 1.6.40 9
5. igi-gal2-bi 54
6. 2.13.20 18
7. igi-gal2-bi 27
8. 4.26.40 9
9. igi-gal2-bi 13.30

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Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: BE 20/1, 025

    [Hilprecht1906BE20/1] Hilprecht, Hermann V. 1906. Mathematical, Metrological and Chronological Tablets from the Temple Library of Nippur. University of Pennsylvania Babylonian Expedition 20/1.

  • history: New MCT, fig. 13.4.2 CBS 10201

    [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.

  • history: JCS 01 (pp. 219-240), 225

    [Sachs1947JCS1219-240] Sachs, Abraham J. 1947. “Babylonian Mathematical Texts I. Reciprocals of Regular Sexagesimal Numbers.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 1 (3): 219–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359434.

  • history: MKT I, p. 24

    [sec33293] N.d.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 10201
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
2024-09-10 at 16:52:34 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2024-09-10 at 16:39:29 Firth, Richard Artifact, Other Entity Firth, Richard Firth, Richard approved View
2023-06-14 at 22:28:20 Rattenborg, Rune Artifact Rattenborg, Rune Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Rattenborg, Rune approved View
2023-01-19 at 10:11:27 Pagé-Perron, Émilie Artifact Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie Electronic Babylonian Library Pagé-Perron, Émilie approved View
2014-08-18 at 14:30:04 Englund, Robert K. Atf Firth, Richard CDLI approved View
2003-09-11 at 00:00:00 CDLI Artifact Veldhuis, Niek Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts CDLI approved View

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Cite this Artifact
“BE 20/1, 025 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). September 10, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P230036.
BE 20/1, 025 artifact entry (No. P230036). (2024, September 10). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230036 (Original work published 2003)
BE 20/1, 025 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230036 (Accessed: April 19, 2025).
@misc{2024BE,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-04-19]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {sep 10},
	title = {BE 20/1, 025 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230036},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230036},
}


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