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"Using a system that the Sumerians had developed circa 2000 BC, the Babylonians established the foundations of modern timekeeping. They divided the daylight hours into 12 parts and the nights into 12 more, defining the 24 segments that we now refer to as You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Babylonian astronomers used a sexigesimal (base 60) system to split each of these 24 divisions into 60 units (minutes), which were subdivided in turn into 60 more parts (seconds). "

This would fit with the labels and with the numbers within each of the columns.

The first column never goes above 12. The second and third columns never go above 60.


I know that they did not have an accurate way of measuring seconds until a couple of centuries later, but they did have a concept of seconds, and the rightmost column is labeled 2nd.