BM 110450, a scratch pad on a clod of clay?

Christine Proust (1)

1 SPHERE (UMR_7219) - Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire

Tablet BM 110450 was acquired by the British Museum in 1914 and registered under the number 1914-4-4, 516. It is part of a collection purchased from Elias Géjou, the Parisian antiquarian who was one of the most important supplier of tablets for European and American museums in the first decades of the 20th century. The tablet measures 8.5 cm wide, 5.3 cm high and 2.5 cm thick

Mots clés: Cuneiform mathematics; Sexagesimal place value notation

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Christine Proust. BM 110450, a scratch pad on a clod of clay?. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2017, 2017-06. ⟨hal-01580900v1⟩