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The collection holds Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC). [1] The tablet displays an approximation of the square root of 2 . Comprising some 45,000 items, the Yale Babylonian Collection is an independent branch of the Yale University Library housed on the Yale University campus in Sterling Memorial Library at New Haven ...
YBC 7289 is a Babylonian clay tablet notable for containing an accurate sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2, the length of the diagonal of a unit square. This number is given to the equivalent of six decimal digits, "the greatest known computational accuracy ... in the ancient world". [ 1 ]
In the time of Sumu-la-El (c. 1880-1845 BC), ruler of the First Babylonian empire, the ruler of Lagaba was Mutumme-El. [12] After a long period of control by Babylon the year names of the next to last ruler of that empire Samsu-iluna (c. 1750-1712 BC) ceased to be used in Lagaba in his year 30 suggesting that city, like others in the empire ...
In 1910, Clay became the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University. [2] In 1909, J. Pierpont Morgan funded the founding of the Yale Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Clay served as its first curator, a position which he held until his death in 1925.
The Urra=hubullu (𒄯𒊏 𒄷𒇧𒈝 ur 5-ra — ḫu-bul-lu 4; or HAR-ra = ḫubullu, [1] or Gegenstandslisten ("lists of objects") [1]) is a major Babylonian glossary or "encyclopedia". [2] It consists of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists ordered by topic. [3] [4] The canonical version extends to 24 tablets, and contains almost 10,000 ...
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The Babyloniaca is a text written in the Greek language by the Babylonian priest and historian Berossus in the 3rd century BCE. Although the work is now lost, it survives in substantial fragments from subsequent authors, especially in the works of the fourth-century CE Christian author and bishop Eusebius, [1] and was known to a limited extent in learned circles as late as late antiquity. [2]
Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions is a 1918, Sumerian linguistics and mythology book written by George Aaron Barton. [ 1 ] It was first published by Yale University Press in the United States and deals with commentary and translations of twelve cuneiform , Sumerian myths and texts discovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of ...