what one finds on the tablet. Plates 28 (2000—745 B.C.) and 34 (663—525 B.C.) of A. C. T. E. Prisse D'Arenne's Histoire de l'Art Égyptian d'aprés les Monuments, Paris, Atlas, vol. 1, 1878, present designs suggesting similar figures.
Gunn, B. G., "'Finger-numbering' in the pyramid texts," Zeitschrzft für Agyptische Sprache . . . , vol. 57, 1922, pp. 71-72.
Inspired by Sethe (1918). Of interest in connection with Horus-eye notation; compare note under Moller (1911).
Jéquier, G., "Le systéme numérique en égyptien," pp. 467-482 of Recueil d'Études Égyptologiques dediés à la Mémoire de Jean Frangois Champollion, Paris, 1922. (Bibliothéque de L'École des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philologiques, vol. 234).
Refers to Eisenlohr (I877). Goodwin (1867), Sethe (1916).
Sloley, R. W., "Ancient Egyptian mathematics," Ancient Egypt, 1922, pp. 111-117.
Of no~value.
Vetter, Q., "Egyptiské zlomky," Časopis pro Pěstovdnt Matematiky a Fysiky, vol. 52, 1922, pp. 169-176; résumé in French, "Les fractions égyptiennes," pp. 176-177.
References to Eisenlohr (1877, 1891), Rodet (1881), Brugsch (1891), Hultsch (1897), Sethe (1916). Unimportant.
1923
Fettweis, E., Wie man einstens rechnete, (Mathematisch-physikalische Bibliothek, no. 49). Leipzig and Berlin, 1923.
"Das Rechnen bei den vom Griechentum unabhängigen Kulturvölkern," pp.11–19; Egyptian, pp. 11–15, Babylonian, pp. 17–19. Unimportant.
Peet, T. E., "Arithmetic in the middle kingdom," The Journal of Egyptian Archæology, vol. 9, 1923, pp. 91–95.
Definitive interpretation of Cairo tablets translated by Daressy (1906) but later corrected by Möller (1911); an error by Möller is corrected by Sethe (1916), p. 74, n. 2, in which Peet finds a slip. The gist of this article is set forth on page 7 of the book described in the next title. In his review, listed below, Gunn (1926) [1923] adds, page 124, important comment in this connection. The tablets indicate the values of a third, a seventh, a tenth, an eleventh, and a thirteenth of a hekat, in terms of the parts of a hekat used in every-day transactions, namely 1⁄2 1⁄4 1⁄8 1⁄16 1⁄32 1⁄64 and the 1⁄320 Part called the ro. Thus one seventh of a hekat is found to be (1⁄8 + 1⁄64 ) hekat + 1⁄2 + 1⁄7 + 1⁄14 ) ro. Although hekat is not a liquid measure Gunn has translated it by "gallon."
