CUSAS 10, 016

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Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P252199)

P252188 · ~3100 BCE

MS 3197a

“1(N14) 4(N01) — [entry:] SAL, KISZ 1(N14) 3(N01)# — [entry:] KUR~a, KISZ# 2(N14) 1(N01) — [entry:] |EZEM~axX|,…”

P252182 · ~3300 BCE

MS 3171

“1. 5(N01) units: sheep (UDU) — DIM(?) 2. 5(N01) units: HAL — PAP (supervisory/summary marker) 3. 5(N01) units:…”

P252175 · ~3100 BCE

MS 3164

“[...] , [...] [...] , [...] 1 (N01 unit) , [...] 1 (N01 unit) , [...] 1 (N01 unit) , [...] 1 (N01 unit) , MAR~…”

P252171 · ~3300 BCE

MS 3160

“1. 5(N01), PAP~a, UZ — "5 (N01-units): PAP~a [supervisory/summary mark], UZ [commodity/bird sign]" 2. 1(N14), …”

Transliteration

en-lil2 nin-lil2 nin-urta#
u3 nuska ba-ni-ka
i-na szu-ul-mi u3 ba-la-t,i
a-bi ka-ta li-it-ta-ar-ru-u2
ki!-ma a-wi-le-e
ah-hi-ka
a-bi at-ta _1(disz) ma-na! siki_
na-ar-ri-ra-am-ma
lu-u2 u2-sa-at-ka
u3 a-me-ru-ia
ma-har en-lil2 nin-lil2
nin-urta u3 nuska
ba-ni-ka
a-na! a-bi-ia ka-ta
li-ik-ru-bu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CUSAS 10, 016. 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: Schøyen Collection, Oslo, Norway (P252199) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P252199..

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