Position in chronology
VS 18, 004
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P373067)
Transliteration
1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar 1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-sig17 ku3-babbar utu ki utu za-ba4-ba4-mu-sza-lim u3 i-din-za-ba4-ba4 szu ba-an-ti-mesz ki lu2 silim!-ma-ta u3 lu2 gi-na-ta ku3 szu ba-ab-te-ge26 igi utu igi a-a iti udru u4 3(u)-kam mu sa-am-su-i-lu-na lugal-e a2-ag2-ga2 en-lil2-la2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — VS 18, 004. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Samsu-iluna y1 — Samsu-iluna became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P373067) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P373067..
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