Position in chronology
PBS 08/2, 190
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 P257663)
Transliteration
_1(asz) sze gur ur5-ra masz2_ x [...] _1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar masz2_ utu u2-s,a-ab _ki_ a-a-tal-lik _lukur_ utu _dumu-munus_ u2-sza-tum il-lu-tum _dumu_ ARAD-utu u3 il-ta-ni _dam-a-ni_ _szu ba-an-ti-mesz u4 buru14-sze3_ _sze u3 masz2-bi i3-ag2-e-mesz_ _ku3 u3 masz2-bi i3-la2-e-mesz_ _igi_ i-din-nin-szubur _dumu_ sin-e-ri-ba-am _igi_ lu-usz-ta-mar _dumu_ a-hu-la-ap-utu _igi_ i3-li2-i-din-nam _dumu_ s,il2-li2-utu _igi_ dingir-szu-mu-ba-li2-it, _dub-sar_ _iti ab-e3-a_ _mu gu-za inanna_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 190. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P257663) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257663..
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