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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 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.
William Wolfgang Hallo (March 9, 1928 – March 27, 2015 [1] [2]) was professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University. He was born in Kassel, Germany. [3] Hallo was a Master of Morse College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, between 1982 and 1987. [4]
Ettalene Mears Grice (March 25, 1887 – December 4, 1927) was an American educator, curator, and scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylonia. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Assyriology at Yale University, and was acting curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection from 1925 to 1926.
the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection have been published by G.M. Beckman in the Catalogue of the YBC [2] and by Oded Tammuz [3] [4] [5] of Ben Gurion University many dated to the reign of Samsuiluna, the Böhl Collection at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East [6] [7] at Leiden University,
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]
This book describes some 313 tablets from Uruk, in the collections of Yale University. They include letters on religious matters, land transfers, sales contracts, and legal documents. [7] The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period (Cuneiform Monographs 23, Leiden & Boston: Brill/Styx, 2003, ISBN 978-90-04-13024-1).