CDLI Literary 000381, ex. 044

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

ag2# mu# [nu]-tuku#-[gin7 ba-til3-le-na-asz na-ag2-zu in-tar-ra]
uru2-gu10# szag4# kug#-gu10# [mu-e-szi-hug za-a-ar ma-ra-an-gur-ra-am3]
nibru# szag4 kug-gu10 mu#-[e-szi-hug za-a-ar ma-ra-an-gur-ra-am3]
uru2 zid na-ag2 gal-zu in-tar#-[ra-am3 bal-zu in-su3-ud-dam]
nibru# na#-ag2# gal#-[zu in-tar-ra-am3 bal-zu in-su3-ud-dam]
[an en-lil2 en-ki nin-mah-bi a2-bi ha-ba-an-ag2-esz]-am3#
[gisz-gi4-gal2-bi]-im#
[i3-ne-esz2 a2-sze den-lil2-le ud zid kalam-ma bi2-in-gub-ba]-am3#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000381, ex. 044. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P280635) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P280635..

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