Kress 019

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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 P272806)

P272826 · ~3000 BCE

MDP 06, 4998

“[...] [...] 2(N39B) 1(N24) [M347?] [M370?] |M347+X|? [sign] [...] [...] [...] [...] 1(N39B) [M010~2] : 4(N14) …”

P272827 · ~3000 BCE

MDP 06, 5000

“M157 [heading/rubric] [x] M297[?] , 2(N14) M038~e , 1(N01) 1(N39B) M305~i [x] [...] , [...] 1(N24) 1(N30C) M28…”

P272828 · ~3000 BCE

Sb 15222

“M157# [heading/rubric sign — function unknown] M386~da M304 M297 : 1(N01) 2(N30C) 1(N30D)# [x] M139 M29…”

P272807 · ~1800 BCE

Kress 020

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Kress 019. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: private: anonymous, Germany (P272806) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P272806..

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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.