Position in chronology
TEBA 25
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no English translation is stored in this record 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 P424236)
Transliteration
1(disz) szu-szi _gur zu2-lum_ a-hu-wa-qar _1(u) 1(asz) gur_ a-hu-szi-na _3(asz) 2(barig) gur_ a-da-la-lum _1(u) 4(asz) 2(barig) gur_ e-tel-pi2-sin _4(u) 2(asz) gur_ sze-rum-ia-tum _2(u) 2(asz) gur_ bur-ri-ia _2(u) 7(asz)# 1(barig)# 3(ban2) gur_ a-pil-mar-tu _iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 3(u)-kam_ _mu_ sa-am-su-i-lu-na _lugal-e gu-za bara2 gu-la ku3-sig17-ta_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TEBA 25. 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: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (P424236) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P424236..
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
A surviving administrative record of named people and livestock in the Ur III period. Together with other archives, such accounts reveal the work of managing animals, deliveries and institutional responsibility.