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Trading Token Sumeria
Having tokens sealed into bullae-envelopes proved unsuitable for more complex trading records. This led to a simpler system of recording numbers and items directly onto clay fashioned into different shapes developing circa 3,500-3,200 BCE.
Here we see two numbers, three & four, being used to represent measures of two kinds of commodities.
This token measures 4x3cm and contains three small circular depressions and four short wedges.
The above is copyright to the Schoyen Collection
, catalogue umber MS 4647. It can be viewed at: www.schoyencollection.com/math.htm
Exhibited: The Norwegian Intitute of Palaeography and Historical Philology (PHI), Oslo, 13.10.2003-06.2005.
Trading Token Sumeria
Having tokens sealed into bullae-envelopes proved unsuitable for more complex trading records. This led to a simpler system of recording numbers and items directly onto clay fashioned into different shapes developing circa 3,500-3,200 BCE.
Here we see two numbers, three & four, being used to represent measures of two kinds of commodities.
This token measures 4x3cm and contains three small circular depressions and four short wedges.
The above is copyright to the Schoyen Collection
, catalogue umber MS 4647. It can be viewed at: www.schoyencollection.com/math.htm
Exhibited: The Norwegian Intitute of Palaeography and Historical Philology (PHI), Oslo, 13.10.2003-06.2005.