Position in chronology
Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P368265)
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablets in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford",
Attribution
Image: Zunkir — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATriangle_geometrical_tablet_Ashmolean_1931_91.jpg. Description: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablets in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford", SCIAMVS 05 pp 40-41. Tablet from Kish. A.
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