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OB Heights (Q002434)
Mathematical, Old Babylonian, Various · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OB Heights |
|---|---|
| ID | Q002434 |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Mathematical |
| Find spot | Various |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 šu-si 2 | 1 finger is 2 |
| 2 | 2 šu-si 4 | 2 fingers is 4 |
| 3 | 3 šu-si 6 | 3 fingers is 6 |
| 4 | 4 šu-si 8 | 4 fingers is 8 |
| 5 | 5 šu-si 10 | 5 fingers is 10 |
| 6 | 6 šu-si 12 | 6 fingers is 12 |
| 7 | 7 šu-si 14 | 7 fingers is 14 |
| 8 | 8 šu-si 16 | 8 fingers is 16 |
| 9 | 9 šu-si 18 | 9 fingers is 18 |
| 10 | 1/3 kuš₃ 20 | 1/3 cubit is 20 |
| 11 | 1/2 kuš₃ 30 | 1/2 cubit is 0;30 |
| 12 | 2/3 kuš₃ 40 | 2/3 cubit is 40 |
| 13 | 1 kuš₃ 1 | 1 hide is 1 |
| 14 | 1 1/3 kuš₃ (1.20) | 1 1/3 cubits (is) 1 20 |
| 15 | 1 1/2 kuš₃ (1.30) | 1 1/2 cubits (is) 1 30 |
| 16 | 1 2/3 kuš₃ (1.40) | 1 2/3 cubits (is) 1 40 |
| 17 | 2 kuš₃ 2 | 2 cubits is 2 |
| 18 | 3 kuš₃ 3 | 3 cubits is 3 |
| 19 | 4 kuš₃ 4 | 4 cubits is 4 |
| 20 | 5 kuš₃ 5 | 5 cubits is 5 |
| 21 | 1/2 nindan 6 | 1/2 rod is 6 |
| 22 | 1/2 nindan 1 kuš₃ 7 | 1/2 rod, 1 cubit is 7 |
| 23 | 1/2 nindan 2 kuš₃ 8 | 1/2 rod, 2 cubits is 8 |
| 24 | 1/2 nindan 3 kuš₃ 9 | 1/2 rod, 3 cubits is 9 |
| 25 | 1/2 nindan 4 kuš₃ 10 | 1/2 rod, 4 cubits is 10 |
| 26 | 1/2 nindan 5 kuš₃ 11 | 1/2 rod, 5 cubits is 11 |
| 27 | 1 nindan 12 | 1 rod is 12 |
| 28 | (1.1/2) nindan 18 | 1 1/2 rods is 18 |
| 29 | 2 nindan 24 | 2 rods is 24 |
| 30 | (2.1/2) nindan 30 | 2 1/2 rods is 30 |
| 31 | 3 nindan 36 | 3 rods is 36 |
| 32 | (3.1/2) nindan 42 | 3 1/2 rods is 42 |
| 33 | 4 nindan 48 | 4 rods is 48 |
| 34 | (4.1/2) nindan 54 | 4 1/2 rods is 54 |
| 35 | 5 nindan 1 | 5 rods is 1 |
| 36 | (5.1/2) nindan (1.06) | 5 1/2 rods (is) 1 06 |
| 37 | 6 nindan (1.12) | 6 rods (1/2 cubit) |
| 38 | (6.1/2) nindan (1.18) | 6 1/2 rods (is) 1 18 |
| 39 | 7 nindan (1.24) | 7 rods (is) 1 24 |
| 40 | (7.1/2) nindan (1.30) | 7 1/2 rods |
| 41 | 8 nindan (1.36) | 8 rods (is) 1 36 |
| 42 | (8.1/2) nindan (1.42) | 8 1/2 rods (is) 1 42 |
| 43 | 9 nindan (1.48) | 9 rods (1 48) |
| 44 | (9.1/2) nindan (1.54) | 9 1/2 rods (is) 1 54 |
| 45 | 10 nindan 2 | 10 rods is 2 |
Sources & licences
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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