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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
michelleful@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Michelle Fullwood") wrote:
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- Black-and-white image of a clay tablet with horizontal and vertical lines forming what looks like a familiar spreadsheet. Most of the text, written in cuneiform, is in the rightmost column. There are also cuneiform signs in the cells. (remote)
- Hand-drawn version of the table in the previous image. The cuneiform signs are much more legible. Source: Robson, E. (2003). Tables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE-50 CE. In The history of mathematical tables: From Sumer to spreadsheets, 19-47. (remote)
