Oriental Institute, Oxford, England The 572 inscribed tablets and fragments recorded in the course of the excavations at Sultantepe in 1951 and 19521 included only two already-baked pieces: one, fragment numbered S.U. 52/104, and found, on its own, in room F5, the central court of Qurdi-Nergal's house, proved to bear part of medical text, and was published as no. 103 of The Sultantepe Tablets, I; the other, an almost complete tablet numbered S.U. 52/5, and found, with most of the Sultantepe tablets, in the pile against the north face of the main outer wall of Qurdi-Nergal's house, bears mathematical text, briefly described in Anatolian Studies II 35 as a mathematical table of reciprocals, well-known type of text in which the integers by which 60 is divisible are given in order, together with the quotient which results when the division is carried out, and as being unusual in having many of the numbers spelt out in Sumerian. Most of this tablet, S.U. 52/5, is very well preserved and clear to read; serious damage is confined to the top left-hand corner of the obverse, where however only few signs have suSered, and the bottom left-hand corner of the reverse, where nearly all the loss occurs below the level of the horizontal ruling which on the undamaged bottom right-hand corner separates the last line of inscription from blank space about three lines of writing in height.2 The extent of the reciprocals appearing in the text places it in the general category of reciprocal tables of the standard type,3 that is, those containing regular numbers (which are defined