The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . their computations of time, the Chal-dseans employed an alternate sexagesimal and decimal notation,reckoning the years by the soss, the ner, and the sar—the sossbeing a term of 60 years, the ner one of 600, and the sar one of3600 (or 60 sosses). It appears from the Senkareh monument,that they occasionally pursued the same practice in mere nu-merical calculations, as w^ill be evident from the illustration.
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . their computations of time, the Chal-dseans employed an alternate sexagesimal and decimal notation,reckoning the years by the soss, the ner, and the sar—the sossbeing a term of 60 years, the ner one of 600, and the sar one of3600 (or 60 sosses). It appears from the Senkareh monument,that they occasionally pursued the same practice in mere nu-merical calculations, as w^ill be evident from the illustration.[PI. XVIII., Figs. 1, 2.] In Arabic numerals this table may be expressed as follows:— Soss. Units. Soss. Units. 43 21 = = 512 52 16 = = r,& 45 4 = = 522 54 9 = -- 572 46 49 = = 532 56 4 = = 582 48 36 = = 542 58 1 = = 592 50 25 = = P52 60 0 = = 602 The calculation is in every case correct; and the notation isby means of two signs—the simple wedge y , and the arrow-head -^; the wedge representing the unit, the soss (60), and thesar (3600), while the arrowhead expresses the decades of eachseries, or the numbers 10 and 600.^^ The notation is Qvmibrous, I Vol Plate XVII Fig. >.
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