SCIAMVS 01, 024, no. 05 (P230440)

Mathematical 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 07265

Period

Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (Square of 5;15)

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tablet
obverse
1. 5.15
2. 5.15
3. 27.33.45
  calculation: 5.15 × 5.15 = 27.33.45
  blank space
reverse
  blank space

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  • Artifact type: Tablet
  • Material: Clay
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  • primary: SCIAMVS 1, p.11-48, p. 24 no. 5

    [Robson2000Philadelphia] Robson, Eleanor. 2000. “Mathematical Cuneiform Tablets in Philadelphia. Part 1: Problems and Calculations.” SCIAMVS 1: 11–48.

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  • Museum No.: CBS 07265
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  • Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Created Creator Type Authors Project Reviewer Status Action
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
“SCIAMVS 01, 024, No. 05 Artifact Entry.” (2003) 2023. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 14, 2023. https://cdli.earth/P230440.
SCIAMVS 01, 024, no. 05 artifact entry (No. P230440). (2023, June 14). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P230440 (Original work published 2003)
SCIAMVS 01, 024, no. 05 artifact entry (2023) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P230440 (Accessed: May 14, 2025).
@misc{2023SCIAMVS,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-05-14]},
	year = {2023},
	month = {jun 14},
	title = {SCIAMVS 01, 024, no. 05 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P230440},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P230440},
}


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