Position in chronology
YOS 13, 011
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P429718)
Transliteration
_1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ a-na _sa10 sze_-im _ki_ utu ta-ri-bu-um _dumu_ e-ri-bi-ia _szu ba-an-ti_ _u4 buru14-sze3_ |KI.LAM| ib-ba-asz-szu-u2 a-na na-szi ka-ni-ki-szu _iti [... u4 n-kam] _mu_ [am-mi-... _lugal-e] ki-[lugal-gub ...]_ _kiszib3_ ta-ri-bu-[um]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 13, 011. 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: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P429718) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P429718..
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