MKT 1, 068, BM 092680

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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P254446 · ~580 BCE

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P254449 · ~580 BCE

MKT 1, 036, BM 092703

P254450 · ~1800 BCE

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P254475 · ~1300 BCE

OrNS 29, 273

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — MKT 1, 068, BM 092680. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P254447) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P254447..

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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.