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The following vocabulary lists all words that appear in the corpus. For each of them, I present a semantic field in which it fits for the purposes of the present work and the translation I adopted, followed by the occurrences of the word in the analysed corpus.
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Gonçalves, C. (2015). General Vocabulary. In: Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22524-1_6
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