Position in chronology
Robertson diss. p. 107, CBS 7482
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Transliteration
4(ban2) 7(disz) sila3 ansze 5(disz) sila3 ansze-edin-na 1(barig) 1(ban2) gu4 niga 2(ban2) udu niga 2(ban2) udu-nita 2(ban2) szah2 niga 1(barig) szah2 ze2-eh-tur 2(disz) sila3 dara3-masz 4(barig) 4(disz) sila3 iti gu4-si-su u4 1(u) 9(disz)-kam mu us2-sa i3-si-in ba-dab-ba
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Robertson diss. p. 107, CBS 7482. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P262483) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P262483..
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