I didn't mention it in my previous post on maths (I was waiting for it to appear on the CDL portal), but the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Mathematical Texts is now open for viewing. Beyond the texts themselves, Robson has a nice summary of Metrology (including charts) . . . this may mean I don't have to carry a copy of Powell's "Masse und Gewichte" RlA article or Huehnergard's summary with me anymore . . .
01 July, 2009
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This is great. But, have you seen a discussion on how the writing of numbers in cuneiform really worked during the Ur III period? As in a discussion of how to decipher all the different place-holders.
Have you tried
M. Powell (1976). 'The antecedents of Old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics', Historia Mathematica 3, 414-439?
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