Position in chronology
CDLI Literary 000416, ex. 003
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no English translation is stored in this record yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P256687)
Transliteration
a-na ba-ta-an-e3-e3 u4-gin7 szeg12 gi4-gi4-da-zu-ne sza3 ki-ag2 inanna-ke4 szu na-ri2-bar-re u8 zi-da sila4 mu-ni-in-szar2-szar2 ud5 zi-da masz2 mu-ni-in-szar2-szar2 ab2 babbar2-ra amar bi2-in#-du3-du3 szul-gi sipa zi ki-en-gi-ra-ra nam mu-ni-ib2-tar-re ur-sag en gaba-gal2 kur-kur-ra a2 zi-da kalam-ma di kalam-ma ki-bi-sze3 i3-ku5-re6 ki-en-gi#-re he2-gal2 mu-da-ab-si uri2-e# giri17-zal mu-da-ab-su3 sag an-sze3 il2#-il2 en asz-im2-babbar2 za3-mu10 nisaba za3#-mu10#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000416, ex. 003. 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 (P256687) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P256687..
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