Metrological Table Texts from Achaemenid Uruk
Book chapter, 2016
The corpus of published mathematical and/or metrological cuneiform texts from the 1st millennium BC is only moderately extensive. In Sec. 1.1 above, 34 Late Babylonian (Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, or Seleucid) texts dealing with many-place regular sexagesimal numbers were listed, and 11 of them were discussed in Chs. 1-2.
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Author
Jöran Friberg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences
Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi
SOAS University of London
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
21968810 (ISSN) 21968829 (eISSN)
87-131Subject Categories
Mathematics
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-44597-7_3