There is a paleo-babylonian font on this page. Using fontspec with XeTeX or LuaTex and things like \char"1240D, you could easily typeset what you need.
Here is a quick example for XeTeX.
Note: It turns out that the font doc is wrong (Ah! If they used TeX to generate it...) and 9 is actually mapped at 1240E, quite logically. Also, 20 seems to be missing while 30 is mapped several times for some reason, so I'm doing 20 with 2 "10" glyphs and a bit of kerning. I'm also adjust kerning between tens and units.
\documentclass[paper=a4]{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage{numname}
\newcommand{\babydisp}[1]{%
\fontspec{Santakku}{\char"#1}}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\babynum}[1]{%
\numdigits{#1}%
\ifcase\c@xsm@mctr
\or
\babydisp{1230B} %10
\or
\babydisp{1230B}\kern-1.5pt{}\babydisp{1230B} %20 -- unknown?
\or
\babydisp{1230D} %30
\or
\babydisp{1240F} %40
\or
\babydisp{12410} %50
\fi
\kern-4pt{}%
\ifcase\c@ism@mctr
\or
\babydisp{12079} %1
\or
\babydisp{1222B} %2
\or
\babydisp{12408} %3
\or
\babydisp{120FB} %4
\or
\babydisp{1240A} %5
\or
\babydisp{1240B} %6
\or
\babydisp{1240C} %7
\or
\babydisp{1240D} %8
\or
\babydisp{1240E} %9
\fi
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
%\noindent\foreach \n in {1,...,59}{%
%\n\quad\babynum{\n}\\
%}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {1,...,20}{%
\n\quad\babynum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {21,...,40}{%
\n\quad\babynum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {41,...,59}{%
\n\quad\babynum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage} \hfill
\end{document}
Edit: There is now a package on CTAN, so you can use it as follows:
\documentclass[paper=a4]{minimal}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage{babyloniannum}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {1,...,20}{%
\n\quad\babyloniannum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {21,...,40}{%
\n\quad\babyloniannum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {41,...,59}{%
\n\quad\babyloniannum{\n}\\
}
\end{minipage} \hfill
\end{document}
Edit: Version 0.4 of the package allows to typeset numbers beyond 59 (up to 60^9 = 1.0077696 × 10^16 in theory, although I think TeX will give up before that).
Best Answer
EDITED to condense the syntax.
Here I provide
\mo[<alignment>]{<symbol list>}. I have set it up to use a space as a symbol list separator (though note that a macro as a symbol will require a trailing{}in order for the subsequent space to be recognized). Alignment can bel,c, orr(defaultc).The macros
X{<horizontal shift in ex>}and\Y{<vertical shift in ex>}{}are also provided.BY POPULAR DEMAND, additional macros are provided:
\FH[<scale>]{<symbol>}for horizontal flipping,\FV[<scale>]{<symbol>}for vertical flipping in the same footprint as the original glyph,\R{<angle>}{<symbol>}for rotating the symbol about its center, and\SC{<scale>}{<symbol>}for scaling a symbol. The 2nd and 4th lines of the output demonstrate these new capabilities.