An Ur III Tablet Concerning Garden Plots and its ‘Sketch’: MVN 22, 31
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Sergio Alivernini
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Angela Greco
Abstract
This contribution reassesses a published Ur III text describing several garden plots of the Ĝirsu province and employing both text and a drawing. It aims at offering an interpretation of the rather confusing sketch and its numerical notation related, in some way, to the written text.
Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to L. Verderame and S. Zaia for their help and support, Veronica Frizzo for the figures, and are particularly indebted to C.B.F. Walker, who collated the tablet and made many precious suggestions, as well as H. Brunke, who improved the content. Of course the authors bear full responsibility for any errors and omissions.
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Note
While the authors share responsibility for the content of this paper, the administrative considerations were written by Greco (§ 1), the mathematical analyses by Alivernini (§ 2). The conclusions are the result of joint work (§ 3).
Abbreviations used are listed in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) website: http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/abbreviations_for_assyriology (URL consulted on October 27, 2013).
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