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>