MCT 034, W 1923-366 (P254958)
Mathematical prism excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UKMuseum Number
Ashm 1923-0366Provenience
uncertain (mod. uncertain)Artifact Type
PrismMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (metrological tables, square roots, cube roots)Language(s)
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Six-sided prism, with hole along vertical axis
- Material: Clay
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Six-sided prism, with hole along vertical axis
- Genre(s): Scholarly or scientific > Mathematical (metrological tables, square roots, cube roots)
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primary: MCT, 034, W 1923-366
[Neugebauer1945MCT] Neugebauer, Otto E., and Abraham J. Sachs. 1945. Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. American Oriental Series 29. American Oriental Society.
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history: SCIAMVS 5, p.3-65, p. 19-22 no. 9
[Robson2004Ashmolean] Robson, Eleanor. 2004. “Mathematical Cuneiform Tablets in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.” SCIAMVS 5: 3–65.
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history: OECT 4, 156
[vanderMeer1938OECT4] Meer, Petrus E. van der. 1938. Syllabaries A, B1 and B with Miscellaneous Lexicographical Texts from the Herbert Weld Collection. Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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2005-02-01 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Friberg, Jöran; Guerra, Dylan; Middeke-Conlin, Robert; Peterson, Jeremiah | CDLI | approved |
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