Position in chronology
AUCT 4, 039
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P249624)
Transliteration
1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar ku3 nam-tab-ba ki a-pil-ki-it-tim suen-im-gur-an-ni szu ba-an-ti u4 um-mi-a ku3 al-la2 ab-be2-a ku3 i3-la2-e igi suen-ba-ni nu-ru-um e2-a-ma-AN iti gu4-si-sa2 u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam mu us2-sa ha-am-mu-ra-pi2 lugal
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 039. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y2 — Year after: Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P249624) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249624..
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