TM 55978
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TM 55978 / LDAB 55978 Record to be adopted by: you?
Stable URI (with TM ID):
www.trismegistos.org/text/55978 
Metadata
Date: 2nd century AD: AD 100 - 199
Provenance: Memphis ? - Egypt (LThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
Language/script: Demotic
Material: papyrus
Incompletely preserved
Book form: roll; columns preserved: 0; number of lines per page: 11, 16, 19, 14, 17, 13
Content (beta!): scientific, thirteen mathematical problems involving progressions and the approximation of irrational square roots
Culture & genre: literature, science — mathematics (religion: Egyptian)
Recto/Verso: Ro
Reuse type: palimpsest old, effaced by: see notes
Reuse note: palimpsest new: parts of land register, list of names, accounts etc.; only the Ro seems to be palimpsest; the original text is written on Ro and Vo; the new text covers only 89,0 cm of the complete roll of 754,5 cm in length
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