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112. Alabaster figurine of a bull,
recumbent, human-headed and with a long beard. The figurine’s base bears
cuneiform inscription, found at Telloh, datable to the early 2nd
millennium BC
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113. Gypsum cast of the famous stele of
Hammurabi (original now in the Louvre, Paris). On the upper part is an image of
the sun-god Shamash sitting on a throne giving the symbols of authority and
justice to Hammurabi (1792-1750BC), king of Babylon who is standing in a
respectful attitude
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114. Algebraic-geometrical tablet involving
triangles described by a perpendicular drawn from the right angle to the
hypotenuse (similar to Euclid’s theory), from Tell Harmal, datable to the
early 2nd millennium BC
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115. Geometrical tablet containing three
algebraic-geometrical problems whose solution leads to second-class algebraic
equations (using algebraic graphs), from Tell Harmal, early 2nd millennium BC
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116. Legal tablet in baked clay, containing
the famous Eshnunna Code of Law, from the early 2nd millennium BC,
predating Hammurabi’s code of law, found at Tell Harmal
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117. A clay prism bearing a seven-column
text of sign lists and syllabaries which could be musical tunes or for teaching
students pronunciation, from Tell Harmal, datable tot he early 2nd millennium
BC
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118. Clay tablet deciphered as an
algebraic-geometrical problem involving a rectangle whose diagonal and area are given and it is
required to find its length and width. It is solved in the same way reputed as
the pythagrorean theorem, found at Tell Harmal, datable to the early 2nd
millennium BC
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119. Terracotta lioness, traces of paint
visible, from Aqar Quf (Dur-Kurigalzu), datable to the mid-2nd millennium
BC
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120. Painted terracotta model of a man’s
bearded head, from Aqar Quf, datable to the mid-2nd millennium BC
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