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NDMERALS 117'
only two lsa, and "\ before the smallest ordinary measure, the lsa. In
CT. X pl. 24 occur examples like D T = one gur and sixty lsa. In this
inscription sheep (!EU) are numbered in the lapidary slyle, butfish ih
thesecondary style. In RTC. no. 16 we find the lapidary sign for
, ane', ,before the measure 1m, bu t the date 'the 19 th year' is wri tten
in the cuneiform style '. Gradually the form "\ regained its origi­
nalposition T and in t~e inscriptions of the Ur and Isin dynasties "\
has practically disappeared except in the expression for 'minus'
T~. In the cylinders of Gudea both form s "\ and T exist side by
side in the same sense 2.
§ 172. The words for the digi ts and for the higher orders of the
numerical system are as follows 3.
J. as, written - (ás) remnant of the lapidary system, T (Cts) 1, remnant
of the secondary system '.
2.. min, written TT, man 6.
3. According to SCHEIL, Sippar no. 1, in ZA. IX 219, the word for
, three' is essu 7 ; in the sign name of ====f~~-l=ana-cs-sc-lw, the word
appears as esse. vVritten ordinarily HT. The sign