Position in chronology
OLP 18, 064 2
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 P453268)
Transliteration
na-s,i-rum ku3-ta u2-tul2-esz18-dar ra-bi-szu-zu-ub-marduk ku3-ta ib-ni-iszkur 2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar dam-qu2 dingir-szu-ib-ni erin2 ka-asz-szu-u2 a-na zimbir-am-na-nu i-na iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 1(u)-kam ub-lam suen-ib-ni dub-sar
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OLP 18, 064 2. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (P453268) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P453268..
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