LOT 0173 Old Babylonian Multiplication Tablet
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2000-1600 BC. A ceramic pillow-shaped tablet containing an impressed multiplication table for 18 to one face, accompanied by a copy of a handwritten scholarly note which states: 'M. Multiplication Table. 104mm x 43mm. Old Babylonian Period, Ca. 2000-1600 BC. A multiplication table for 18, running from factors 1 to 20 then for 30, 40, and 50. In the Babylonian sexagesimal numbering system this represents all that one needs to calculate any multiple up to factors of the base, 60.' 130 grams, 10.4cm (4"). Ex central London gallery; acquired on the UK art market in 1998; formerly from an old London collection; accompanied by a copy of a re-written and unsigned scholarly note, the original believed written by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993. [No Reserve]
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