Position in chronology
JCS 11, 038 33
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P254556)
Transliteration
_2(esze3) 1(iku)_ 1/2(iku) GAN2_ 3(u) 2(disz) 1/2(disz) sar_ _usz & sag & a-sza3_ _1(gesz2) 4(disz) 3(u) & 9(disz) & 5(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2 3(u)#? sar_ _1(u) 6(disz) 1/2(disz) & 1(gesz2) 2(u) 2(disz) 3(u) & 2(u) 3(disz) sar_ _5(u) 2(disz) 3(u) & 5(disz) & 2(iku) 1/2(iku) GAN2 1(u) 1(disz) 1/2(disz) sar_ szi-ka-tum _5(u) 3(disz) & 5(disz) & 2(iku) 1/2(iku) gan2 1(u) 5(disz) sar#_ ma-ia-ru
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 11, 038 33. 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).
Attribution
Image: Semitics/ICOR Collections, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA (P254556) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P254556..
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