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Plimpton 322: Purpose and authorship, Provenance and dating & Content
Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, that contains a mathematical table written in cuneiform script. Each row of the table relates to a Pythagorean triple, that is, a triple of integers ( s , l , d ) {\displaystyle (s,l,d)} that satisfies the Pythagorean theorem, s 2 + l 2 = d 2 {\displaystyle…
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Plimpton 322 topic overview
The analysis highlights Purpose and authorship, Provenance and dating and Content as prominent areas in the source structure around Plimpton 322.
Related topics
47
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
53
Extracted relationships
94
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
53
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 16 topics
Purpose and authorship · 11 topics
Content · 7 topics
Provenance and dating · 7 topics
Construction of the table · 4 topics
Exhibitions · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Created
c. 1800 BC
Height
9 cm
Present location
New York City, New York, United States
Width
13 cm
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How Plimpton 322 connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Plimpton 322 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Plimpton 322 → Ancient World, Before Pythagoras, Columbia University, Columbia’s Libraries, December, Edward, From Old Babylon, Her Crown, Includes, Institute, Item, January, Jewels, Manuscript Library, Masters, Math, New York Times, New York University, November, October Another extracted example is Plimpton 322 → Abdulaziz, Abdulrahman Ali, Babylonian Method, Baruch College, Bibcode, Bill, British ColumbiaKirby, CDLN, City University, Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, Generating Pythagorean Triples, Half-hour, ISSN, Laurence, Modern Mathematics, New YorkJens Kleb, Plimpton, Tablet, The Ancient Roots, The Babylonian. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Plimpton 322
Top relations
related to Exhibitions· 32
Plimpton 322 → Ancient World, Before Pythagoras, Columbia University, Columbia’s Libraries, December, Edward, From Old Babylon, Her Crown, Includes, Institute, Item, January, Jewels, Manuscript Library, Masters, Math, New York Times, New York University, November, October
related to Further reading· 22
Plimpton 322 → Abdulaziz, Abdulrahman Ali, Babylonian Method, Baruch College, Bibcode, Bill, British ColumbiaKirby, CDLN, City University, Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, Generating Pythagorean Triples, Half-hour, ISSN, Laurence, Modern Mathematics, New YorkJens Kleb, Plimpton, Tablet, The Ancient Roots, The Babylonian
related to Provenance and dating· 14
Plimpton 322 → According, Banks, BC, Columbia University, Edgar, George Arthur Plimpton, Iraq, Larsa, More, New York, Plimpton, Robson, Senkereh, The
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 94 structured relationships around Plimpton 322. Examples in this analysis include Plimpton 322 → Created → c. 1800 BC and Plimpton 322 → Height → 9 cm. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Predicate
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Plimpton 322
Created
c. 1800 BC
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infobox
Plimpton 322
Height
9 cm
1.00
infobox
Plimpton 322
Present location
New York City, New York, United States
1.00
infobox
Plimpton 322
Width
13 cm
1.00
infobox
Plimpton 322
is a
Babylonian clay tablet
0.90
text
Plimpton 322
is a
trigonometric table is ruled out for similar reasons
0.90
text
Plimpton 322
is a
table of numbers
0.90
text
BM 80209
instance of
and of similar tablets
0.80
text
would have been useful in allowing a teacher to set problems in the same format as each other but with different data
instance of
and of similar tablets
0.80
text
Plimpton 322
related to Content
The
0.60
section
Plimpton 322
related to Content
Plimpton
0.60
section
Plimpton 322
related to Content
Babylonian
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Plimpton 322 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ms, Written and Numbers. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Plimpton 322
Ms
Written
Numbers
Table
Tablet
Robson
Mathematical
Pythagorean
Problem
Also
Reciprocal
Pairs
plimpton 322
Ms
Written
Numbers
Table
Tablet
Robson
Mathematical
Pythagorean
Problem
Also
Reciprocal
Pairs
clay tablet
Table
Errors
Column
Reciprocal
Number
Pairs
Robson
Columns
Proposal
Sexagesimal
Row
Sachs
mathematical table
Written
Errors
Tablet
Also
Row
Robson
Proposal
Displaystyle
Column
Pythagorean
Columns
Problems
otto neugebauer
Sachs
Also
First
Numbers
Pythagorean
Pairs
Triangle
Right
Tablet
Regular
Table
Column
regular number
Column
Number
Regular
Sexagesimal
Square
Row
Reciprocal
Side
Numbers
Tablet
Triangle
Proposal
square root
Width
Number
Side
Column
Diagonal
First
Triangle
Robson
Would
Used
Also
Two
george arthur plimpton
Ms
Written
Numbers
Table
Tablet
Robson
Mathematical
Pythagorean
Problem
Also
Reciprocal
Pairs
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Plimpton 322, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Plimpton 322 with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Plimpton 322 — Overview· splits 37 ⟂ 17Plimpton 322 — Purpose and authorship· splits 42 ⟂ 12Plimpton 322 — Provenance and dating· splits 46 ⟂ 8Plimpton 322 — Content· splits 46 ⟂ 8Plimpton 322 — Construction of the table· splits 49 ⟂ 5Plimpton 322 — Exhibitions· splits 51 ⟂ 3
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Plimpton 322
Nodes54
Edges53
Triples94
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Plimpton 322 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Purpose and authorship, Provenance and dating & Content, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
