Position in chronology
TJA UMM H 18
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P315362)
Transliteration
[n] _sar# sig4-hi-a_ _ki_ e#-tel-pi4-isz8-tar2 _ugula suhur-la2-mesz_ sze-le-bu-um _dumu#?_ [...-i3]-li2#-szu# _szu ba#-[an]-ti# a-na# [... _iti n-kam_] _sig4_ a-na# [...] sza# il#-[qu2-u2] u2-ta-a-ar _igi_ nin-urta-mu-ba-li2-it, _dumu_ amar-utu-mu-sza-lim _igi_ i-szum-ga-mil _dub-sar_ _iti apin-du8-a u4 1(u) 9(disz)-kam_ _mu_ am-mi-di-ta-na _lugal-e bad3 kar-utu bad3# utu-ke4_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA UMM H 18. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (P315362) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315362..
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