Position in chronology
PSBA 34, 110 pl. 8 no. 3
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P450707)
Transliteration
_igi_ nin-mar _igi_ utu-ha-zi-ir ra-bi-a-nim _igi_ lu-mu-ur-sza-dingir _szagina_ _igi_ a-bu-wa-qar _sza13-dub-ba_ _igi_ lu2-na-tum _igi_ iszkur-tu-kul2-ti _igi_ i-s,i-ga-tar _aga-us2_ _igi_ szi-bi an-nu-tim _1/3(disz) sar e2_ sza ki-nu-ni-im be2-li-im# a#-na ur-szul-pa-e3 bu#-u2-ur x-x-ZU _kiszib3_ sza ur-szul-[pa]-e3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — PSBA 34, 110 pl. 8 no. 3. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P450707) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450707..
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