Position in chronology
Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P235768)
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Numerical tablet, dated ca 3500-3350 BC (Uruk V phase), found in Khafaje. Oriental Institute Museum A21310. CDLI P235768 https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P235768
Attribution
Image: Original: Daderot Derivative work : Zunkir — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANumerical_tablet_Khafaje_OIM_A21310.jpg. Description: Numerical tablet, dated ca 3500-3350 BC (Uruk V phase), found in Khafaje. Oriental Institute Museum A21310. CDLI P235768 https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P235768.
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