Position in chronology
CDLJ 2012/1 §6.03
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Transliteration
1(disz) 5/6(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar# [...] masz2# gi#-na# ba-ab-dah-e ki suen-u2-s,e2-li# [...] ma-x-x-im? szu ba-an-ti iti sig4 sze u3# masz2#-bi# i3-ag2-e igi x x x [igi ]suen#-i-din-nam [igi] x x x [igi] x-nu?-tab [igi] ak#?-x-mu [igi ...]-x-un
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) ?) — CDLJ 2012/1 §6.03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA (P416488) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P416488..
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