Position in chronology
TCL 01, 126
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P386562)
Transliteration
_e2_ ru-ug-ba-am _ki_ li-pi2-it-esz18-dar ib-ba-tum _dumu_ ma-an-nu-um-suen# a-na _mu 1(disz)-kam_ i-gu-ur _1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar i3-la2-e_ re-esz ki-is,-ri _1/3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ ma-hi-ir _igi_ utu u3 a-a _igi_ a-hu-ni _iti du6-ku3 u4 1(disz)-kam_ _mu ki-lugal-gub-ba_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TCL 01, 126. 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: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P386562) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P386562..
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