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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
page 535 note 1 It is probable that many additional fragments of the series are known, and are preserved in various museums. The British Museum possesses at least a few Babylonian duplicates.
page 536 note 1 Or Enlila, Ellila, Illila, as it is read now.
page 537 note 1 For the 1st day it is 
, 13,500; 2nd, 
, 27,000; 3rd, 
, 54,000; 4th, 
, 10,800; 5th, 
, 210,000; 6th, 
, 259,200; 7th, 
, 302,400; 8th, 
, 345,600; 9th, 
388,800; 10th, 
, 432,000; 11th, 
, 475,200; 12th, 
518,400; 13th, 
, 561,600; 14th, 
, 604,800; 15th, 
, 648,000, decreasing thereafter apparently in the same ratio (the tablet is defective after “day 16th”, which has the same number as for the 14th, namely, 604,800). The first five numbers are respectively the 960th, 480th, 240th, 120th, and 60th parts of the magnus Plaionicus annus referred to by Hilprecht in his examination of the mathematical tablets from the Temple Library at Niffur (see the JRAS. for 1907, pp. 707 ff.)Google Scholar. After this the numbers increase by fifths of 216,000 only, and, after 648,000 is reached, decrease by the same amount. In all probability the decrease was by 50 per cent, after the 25th day was reached. As the moon is intimately connected with births, it is probable that this is the explanation of the reason why 12,960,000 was what Plato says was called “the lord of better and worse births”.