Babylonian astronomical tablet At right this diagram shows how the distance traveled by Jupiter after 60 days 10º45 is calculated as the area of the trapezoid The Babylonians knew they could then divide this trapezoid into two smaller ones of equal area in order to find the time in which Jupiter covers half the distance it travels in 60 days
Clay tablet complete medical prescription salve for spots Late Babylonian civilization Mesopotamia iraq
map of Sippar Late Babylonian
Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam
Findspot Dilbat Mesopotamia iraq
Clay tablet Diagram of fields with measurements of sides. Landscape format
Authority Third Dynasty of Ur 2111 – 2006 BCE
Mesopotamia Iraq Sumerian civilization
Library of Ashurbanipal
Nineveh iraq Mesopotamia
Clay tablet, letter, astrological, from Bel-nasir 11 lines of inscription, Late Babylonian Nearly complete astrological report and letter to the king concerning observations of the moon in the appended letter the king is asked to send a physician to Cultures Late Babylonian
a school exercise text – a table of reciprocals of the number 60
2112 BC – c. 2004 BC Mesopotamia iraq Sumerian civilization
Area of fields and their yield; round tablet 6 columns Lagash Mesopotamia iraq Sumerian civilization
Ruler Amar Suen
Clay tablet Record of cultivation of orchards with areas, numbers of fruit trees (date palms, pomegranates,apples, etc.) and names of gardeners
Ur Mesopotamia iraq 2112 BCE
Babylonian astronomical diary from Mesopotamia iraq for the second half Seleucid Era including observation of Halley’s comet in 164 BC; the text states that the comet which had previously been seen in the east in the path of Anu in the area of Pleiades and Taurus now passed along in the path of Ea The date of first visibility
Title Series Library of Ashurbanipal
astronomical report glossed 14 lines of inscription Neo-Assyrian Complete astrological report to the king concerning observations of the sun, moon and Saturn Associated names Associated with Ashurbanipal
Description Fragment of a clay tablet, 9 lines of inscription. Late Babylonian. Fragment of the left half. Astrological forecasts taken from observations of eclipses and of various stars. They partly relate to public affairs. Probably belongs to the great astrologic 600 – 700 BCE
Cultures Late Babylonian Mesopotamia iraq Nineveh
Clay tablet; geometrical diagrams accompanied by problems + 100041; 7 col or more periods Old Babylonian Mesopotamia iraq
Clay tablet with twenty one and twenty two lines of inscription recipe for making red glass Middle Babylonian Mesopotamia iraq
of its highlights are a mathematical school tablet (YBC 7289, left), which approximates the square root of 2, which belongs to a large corpus of mathematical texts in the collection. Among the literature housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection mesopotamia Iraq
A clay tablet from Nippur Mesopotamia Iraq excavated by the penn Museum in 1890 may be considered one of the world’s oldest spreadsheets PM object B3293
Baked clay tablet Temple library
Multiplication Tablet: 1 x 150 = 150; 2 x 150 = 300, etc.
Iraq Nippur mesopotamia
Archaeology Area: Temple Hill
Period: Old Babylonian Period
Date Made: 1900 – 1600 BCE
fragment liver model Late Babylonian
7thC BC-6thC BC
Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam
Excavated Birs Nimrud mesopotamia Iraq
Description Clay tablet complete medical prescription for a baby whose windpipe is constricted Late Babylonian.
Cultures/periods
Late Babylonian civilization Findspot Sippar mesopotamia Iraq
Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam
Babylonian civilization Production place Iraq
605BC-562BC
Clay cuneiform tablet plan of part of Babylon this shows the Tuba area in North-West Babylon, beside a branch of the Euphrates, with two gates
Mousa Alsaibawi