Position in chronology
ASJ 15, 079 7
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P368667)
Transliteration
[x] sze-ba gur a-ti-i-lum lu2 en sig-gisz a-bu-t,a3-bu-um maszkim gur7# da e2 nu-ur2-suen ba-zi iti# gan#-gan#-e3 mu# us2-sa i7-an-ne2-pa3#-da ba-ba-al
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ASJ 15, 079 7. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: private: Kilmer, A., Tucson, Arizona, USA (P368667) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P368667..
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