Teach Yourself The Slide Rule by Burns Snodgrass

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1. 81 HS 1659 + HS 1751 + HS 1760 + HS 1813 + HS 1864; joins by Oelsner. 82 The computation of the number of lines on this prism is rather crude. 53-61) has just over 200 lines. The Jena prism follows the standard text as edited in MSL closely. These 200 lines take up four columns or two faces of the prism. The line na4igi-muš (line 96 in the composite text) on face A col. II corresponds in relative height with na4iskilla-ab-ba (line 143) on face B col. I. This confirms the estimate of about 50 lines per column, or 100 lines per side.

The order of the various stages of inscription may be deduced from some unfinished exemplars. The reverse of UM 29-15-314+ has an extract from the list of trees93. Halfway through the third column the exercise was interrupted. The rest of the third and the whole of the fourth column were left uninscribed. In the uninscribed part of the text an extra vertical line is visible, designed to facilitate the correct placement of the first sign, which in this case is always GIŠ. In the inscribed columns this second vertical line disappears under the writing.

33. 403-415, with references to earlier studies on the subject. 2 as NP I-03. 2 as Ur I-01. 57 The Sumerian é-dub-ba-a is literally 'tablet house'. 23 A description of this eduba, its curriculum and teaching methods is necessary to place the lexical texts in their proper context. Evidence for the school may be found in literary compositions, in archaeological data, and in the exercise tablets themselves. 1 School life: The Picture in Literary Texts The classic study of the Old Babylonian eduba is Sjöberg 1975.

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