Position in chronology
TJA FM 16
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P315298)
Transliteration
_3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ u3#? _5(disz) sila3 i3-gesz_ a-na _sa10_ sze-e-em _ki_ dumu-a-ra-ah-tum SIG-a-ra-ah-tum _dumu_ amar-utu-dingir _szu ba-an-ti_ a-na _iti 1(u)-kam_ _ganba al-gal2-la_ i-na _ban2_ amar-utu me-sze-qa2 _sze i3-ag2-e_ _igi_ il3-szu-na-s,i-ir _igi_ i-szum-mu-ba-li2-it, _dub-sar_ _iti gu4-si-sa4 u4 1(u)-kam_ _mu_ sa-am-su-i-lu-na _lugal-e# bad3 an-da sa2-a zimbir#_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA FM 16. 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: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (P315298) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P315298..
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