10.17608/k6.auckland.6114425.v1 Alistair Kwan Alistair Kwan Mesopotamian tablet YBC 7289 The University of Auckland 2018 Mesopotamian tablet YBC7289 Babylonian tablet Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant Archival, Repository and Related Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified Digital Humanities Heritage and Cultural Conservation History and Philosophy of Education History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy Geometry 2018-04-20 02:59:58 Dataset https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Mesopotamian_tablet_YBC_7289/6114425 A tablet thought to be from southern Mesopotamia, 1800 - 1600 BC. The obverse shows calculation of a square's diagonal, by multiplying the side length by the square root of 2. The reverse is not so easily legible, but seems to treat two separate problems.<div><br></div><div>This tablet is in the Yale Babylonian Collection, catalogue number YBC 7289.</div><div><br></div><div>Illustration and animations rendered in <i>Blender</i> by Alistair M. Kwan (University of Auckland) from a scan by Chelsea Alene Graham (Yale University Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Digitization Lab) using an Artec Spider scanner.</div><div><br></div><div>The animations show the tablet being rotated under static illumination, and the tablet while a light source revolves around a point in front of it. </div>