BM 050634

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P500448)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — BM 050634. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: BM 050634 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P500448). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P500448..

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~1800 BCE

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.