AbB 10, 151

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P469475)

P469474 · ~1800 BCE

AbB 10, 150

P469476 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000805, ex. 012

P469473 · ~1800 BCE

RA 074, 058 122

P469477 · ~580 BCE

RA 114, 159-161 no. 1

Transliteration

a-na a-bi-ia qi2-bi2-ma#
um-ma suen-isz-me-a-ni-ma
utu u3 marduk da-ri-isz u4-mi-im
a-bi li-ba-al#-li-t,u2
ARAD-ku-bi _lu2 x-KA?-KI ensi2
sza qa2-ti-ni# i#-na ha-bu-uz
wa-szi-ib-ma i-szum-a-bi ra-bi-a-nu-um <<ki>>
ma-di-isz ud-da-ab-bi-ib-szu
u3 szi-ni-szu asz-pu-ra-kum-ma
wa-ar-ka-su2 u2-ul tap-ru-us2
a-na i-szum-a-bi ra-bi-a-nu-um <<ki>>
e-zi-iz-ma a-wi-lam
sza u2-ka-asz-szu-ma i-li-ik-szu
it-ta-na-asz-szu la u2-da-ab-ba-ab

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AbB 10, 151. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland (P469475) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P469475..

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