caa a22 4500 378935631 CHVBK 20180305123640.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040719xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zava.94.1.1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zava.94.1.1 A New Look at the Sargonic Mathematical Corpus [Elektronische Daten] [Benjamin R Foster, Eleanor Robson] We present a previously unpublished mathematical tablet from the Sargonic period which includes the earliest known example of a (partial) worked solution to a mathematical problem. The calculation errors and explicit methodological statements in the procedure provide convincing evidence for sexagesimalisation as early as the Sargonic period, in support of Powell (1976) and Whiting (1984). After re-evaluation of hitherto overlooked examples we find that the total number of known Sargonic mathematical problem tablets now stands at around a dozen. Many of them are very badly executed, with a range of errors in writing, arithmetic, and mathematical procedure. There are now four known Sargonic problem types, with the new exemplars showing some more "applied” attributes than the previously known texts. It is hoped that these results will stimulate the search for further mathematical problems which might be lying undetected in the Sargonic administrative corpus. © Walter de Gruyter Foster Benjamin R. Yale University. aut Robson Eleanor Cambridge. aut Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie Walter de Gruyter 94/1(2004-07-19), 1-15 0084-5299 94:1<1 2004 94 zava https://doi.org/10.1515/zava.94.1.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zava.94.1.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Foster Benjamin R. Yale University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Robson Eleanor Cambridge aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie Walter de Gruyter 94/1(2004-07-19), 1-15 0084-5299 94:1<1 2004 94 zava CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter