VS 22, 90

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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 P373412)

Transliteration

[...] x i-ba#-asz-szu#-u2
[...] x BU sza _ma2 gid2-da_ sza nibru
isz#?-ri#?-iq#?-szu _abul_-am u2-sze-s,i-szu-ma
bur-iszkur _ra2-gaba_ a-hi
i-na nibru is,-ba-as-su2-ma#
marduk-a-bi i-na qa2-tim# i-t,e4-er-szu-ma
a-na szar-ra-qa2-ni-szu-ma ip-qi2-is-su2
na?-bi-i3-li2-szu _dumu_ suen-i-ri-im-szu
_sag-ARAD2_ sza i3-li2-e-ri-ba-am _dumu_ a-ha-ti-ia
isz-ri-iq _abul_-am u2-sze-s,i-ma
i-na nibru i-na bi-ti-szu in-na-me-er#
[ki]-a#-am iq-bi-a-am
[x x] ARAD2 x x x ki#-ma# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — VS 22, 90. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P373412) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P373412..

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