Position in chronology
OB Legal 008
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P257654)
Transliteration
be-li2-a-bi sza _e2_ iszkur u3 na-s,i-rum tap-pu-szu sza _7(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ a-na ib-ni-suen _dumu_ utu-na-s,i-ir a-na _gu2-un_ bad3-ma-asz-ka#-an u3 bad3-a-am-mu-ra-pi2 id-di-nu _igi_ marduk-mu-sza-lim _dumu_ na-bi-um-a-su _iti du6-ku3 u4 2(u) 5(disz)-kam_ _mu_ am-mi-di-ta-na _lugal-e alan-a-ni szud3 ab-di-di-[a]_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 008. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P257654) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P257654..
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