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English: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablets in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford", SCIAMVS 05 pp 40-41. Tablet from Kish. Ashmolean Museum, 1931.91 https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P368265
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