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Numbers & Metrology
The metrological systems adopted in cuneiform sources vary considerably according to place, time, and sector of activity. This section aims at representing this diversity of notations of numbers and quantities. Each system will be described in relation to a well delimited set of sources.
The representations are based on the so-called “factors diagrams” introduced by Jöran Friberg in 1978 (The third millennium roots of Babylonian mathematics, I. Göteborg: Department of mathematics, Chalmers University of technology) and now widely used by assyriologists.
For an extensive information on cuneiform metrologies, see the reference article by Marvin A. Powell "Masse und Gewichte." in Reallexikon der Assyriologie vol. 7, 1987-1990, pp. 457-517 (in English). For proto-cuneiform metrologies, see Nissen, Hans J. , Peter Damerow, and Robert Englund. 1993. Archaic Bookkeeping. Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
MesoCalc
Few lines to introduce the topic
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