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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Scope, Methods, Sources | |
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| The Subject: Ancient Iraq and Its Mathematics | |
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| The Artefacts: Assyriological and Mathematical Analysis | |
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| The Contexts: Textuality, Materiality, and Social History | |
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| Before the Mid-Third Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Quantitative Management and Emerging Statehood | |
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| Enumeration and Abstraction | |
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| Symmetry, Geometry, and Visual Culture | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Later Third Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Maps, Plans, and Itineraries: Visual and Textual Representations of Spatial Relationships | |
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| Accounting for Time and Labour: Approximation, Standardisation, Prediction | |
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| The Development of the Sexagesimal Place Value System (SPVS) | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Early Second Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Metrology, Multiplication, Memorisation: Elementary Mathematics Education | |
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| Words and Pictures, Reciprocals and Squares | |
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| Measurement, Justice, and the Ideology of Kingship | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Assyria | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Palatial and Mercantile Numeracy in Early Assyria | |
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| Counting Heads, Marking Time: Quantifications in Royal Inscriptions and Records | |
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| Aru: Number Manipulation in Neo-Assyrian Scholarship | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Later Second Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Tabular Accounting in Southern Babylonia | |
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| Land Surveyors and Their Records in Northern Babylonia | |
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| Quantification as Literary Device in the Epic of Gilgames | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Early First Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Libraries and Schools: The Formalisation of the First-Millennium Scribal Curriculum | |
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| Home Economics: Numeracy in a Mid-First-Millennium Urban Household | |
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| Measuring Houses, Maintaining Professionalism | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Later First Millennium | |
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| Background and Evidence | |
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| Babylon: Mathematics in the Service of Astronomy? | |
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| Achaemenid Uruk: The Sangu-Ninurta and Ekur-zakir Families | |
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| Seleucid Uruk: The Hunzu and Sin-leqi-unninni Families | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Big Picture: Three Millennia of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq | |
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| Ancient Mathematics in the Modern World | |
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| Inside Ancient Mathematics: Translation, Representation, Interpretation | |
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| The Worlds of Ancient Mathematics: History, Society, Community | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Metrological Systems | |
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| Published Mathematical Tablets | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Tablets | |
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| Subject Index | |