Position in chronology
TJA FM 11
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 P315293)
Transliteration
_2(disz) sila4 niga_ a-ma-num _2(disz) sila4 niga_ a-ku-ku-u2 _2(disz) masz2 du_ _szu ti-a_ a-bu-um-dingir _ki# na#-bu#-ia-tum#_ _giri3#_ [in]-bi#-isz8-tar2# _iti# sze-sag11#-ku5#_ [...] _mu_ sa-am-su-i-lu-na _lugal u6 ki-tusz mah_ za-ba4-ba4
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA FM 11. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (P315293) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315293..
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