Proto-cuneiform sexagesimal type Sa.svg

~3300 BCE·Uruk Period·numeral

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Proto-cuneiform numeral signs base 60 and subbase 10, Type S^a according to the typology established by Nissen-Damerow-Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping, Chicago UP 1993

Attribution

Image: Otfried Lieberknecht — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Proto-cuneiform sexagesimal type Sa.svg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProto-cuneiform_sexagesimal_type_Sa.svg. Description: Proto-cuneiform numeral signs base 60 and subbase 10, Type S^a according to the typology established by Nissen-Damerow-Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping, Chicago UP 1993.

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