Position in chronology
PBS 08/2, 225
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P258550)
Transliteration
_5(asz) 3(barig) 2(ban2) sze gur ban2_ amar-[utu] a-na _kur6 erin2 hun-ga2_ a-pa-lim _ki_ i-din-e2-a _dumu_ ib-ni-utu suen-im-gur-an-ni _dumu e2-dub-ba-a_ _szu ba-an-ti_ a-na 1(u) u4-mi i-na e-re-eb gi-mil-lum _5(asz) 3(barig) 2(ban2) sze gur ban2_ amar-utu u2-ta-a-ar _igi_ suen-an-dul3-li2 _dumu e2-dub-ba-a_ _[iti ... u4 n-kam]_ _mu [...] egir bad3 isz-ku-un#-[amar-utu-ke4?]_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 225. 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 (P258550) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P258550..
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