A New Early Dynastic IIIb Metro-Mathematical Table Tablet of Area Measures from Zabalam

Feliu, Lluís

doi:10.1524/aofo.2012.0014

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“…For example, VAT 12593 (Deimel, 1922, No. 82), MS 3047 (Friberg, 2007, p. 160) and Feliu (2012) are tables of rectangles and squares that date from the Early Dynastic period (ca. 2,600-2,350 BCE).…”

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Plimpton 322: A Study of Rectangles

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Plimpton 322: A Study of Rectangles

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“…Both types of columns may appear on the same tablet, as shown by the text published by Feliu (2012; see sketch of Text 3, Fig. 9.9 below), where tabular columns are inserted into typographical columns.…”

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“…3(Feliu 2012) Lluís Feliu has recently published a new table of surfaces belonging to a private collection(Feliu 2012). According to him, a subscript on the obverse mentions the city of Zabalam, where the tablet may have been found during illegal excavations.…”

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Early-Dynastic Tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the Multiple Facets of the Quantification of Surfaces

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Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds

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How were surfaces evaluated before the invention of the sexagesimal place value notation in Mesopotamia? This chapter examines a group of five tablets containing tables for surfaces of squares and rectangles dated to the Early Dynastic period (ca. 2600-2350 BCE) and unearthed in southern Mesopotamia. In order to capture the methods used by ancient scribes to quantify surfaces, special attention is paid to the layout and organization of the tables, as well as to the way in which measurement values are written down. It is argued that these methods vary according to the dimensions of the squares or rectangles concerned: the quantification of small surfaces does not use the same mathematical tools as the quantification of large parcels of land. The chapter shows a reciprocal influence between the metrological systems adopted by the ancient scribes and the methods of calculation of surface they implemented. Some methods may reflect ancient land-surveying practices, and others may testify the emergence of new mathematical concepts applied to all kinds of surfaces, large or small. Ultimately, several different conceptualizations of the notion of surface emerge from the examination of these tables.

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The Old Babylonian Shift

Middeke-Conlin

2023

SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology

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A New Early Dynastic IIIb Metro-Mathematical Table Tablet of Area Measures from Zabalam

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Plimpton 322: A Study of Rectangles

Plimpton 322: A Study of Rectangles

Early-Dynastic Tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the Multiple Facets of the Quantification of Surfaces

The Old Babylonian Shift

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