Position in chronology
DCS 104
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 P414616)
Transliteration
[n] _ma-na 2(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2# ku3#-babbar#_ n _ma-na 1(u) 2(disz) gin2-ta-am3_ ba-ab-dah-e ki nu-ur2-ba-ba6 la-ma-sum2 szu ba-an-ti iti sig4-a ku3 i3-la2-e igi ARAD-nanna igi suen!-sza-mu-uh2 igi qa2-mu-um-a-hi igi nu-t,u2-up-tum kiszib lu2-inim-ma-bi-mesz iti sig4!-x?-a#? diri x? 1(u) 8(disz)?-kam mu ki-sur-ra ba-an-dab-ba u3 tukul-kal!-ga en-lil2 mu-un-szum2-ma-ta ma-da bad3 mu-un-hul-a
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — DCS 104. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (P414616) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P414616..
Related tablets
Related sources
The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.
The oldest surviving law code in human history. The principle that the state — not the wronged family — defines and enforces justice begins here.
Not the first law code, but the most complete and the most famous. Inscribed on a black diorite stele over two meters tall, displayed in a public place — law made visible, law made monumental.