Observações sobre a tradução de textos matemáticos cuneiformes

Abstract

In this work, I deal with certain problems of translation that belong to cuneiform texts in general and more specifically to mathematical cuneiform texts. I analyse these problems from three points of view. Initially, I consider the intellectual mediations a cuneiform text undergoes until its translation. Next, I deal with the particularities of the concepts of the cuneiform mathematics, that is to say, its differences in relation to the mathematics of our time. Lastly, I treat aspects of the original languages of cuneiform texts that are still under discussion by the field. As a conclusion, I suggest that the results of this analysis are relevant not only to the translation process, but also to the reading of translations of mathematical cuneiform texts.