CDLN 2017/001 X.3.116

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P433100)

P433122 · ~2050 BCE

RIME 3/2.01.03.15, ex. add69

“[(Amar-Suena, called by name by Enlil in Nippur, supporter of)] the temple [of Enlil], mighty king, king of Ur…”

P433101 · ~1800 BCE

X.3.117

P433099 · ~580 BCE

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

P433102 · ~1950 BCE

RIME 4.04.01.04, ex. 024

Transliteration

10 & 33.50
20 & n
40 & 1.57.22.30
44
6 & 8.45?.4?
n
45 & 41.30
30
6 & 10?
3 & 20.11?
30 & 21.30
& 2.15

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLN 2017/001 X.3.116. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P433100) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P433100..

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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.