Position in chronology
CDLI Literary 000482, ex. 028
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P269129)
Transliteration
[he2]-du7 isimu2 nam-lugal-la []utu-gin7 du sze-er-zi kalam-ma nam#-nun-sze3 mah me gal-la u5 ub#-da limmu2 ug3 ki gar-ra-asz sze#-ga en-lil2-la2 nin-lil2-le ki ag2# szul# zi igi gun3 bara2-ga tum2#-[ma] men aga zi# [sag me-te-gal2] sibir# [szu du8 sag-ge6-ga] sa12-e#-esz# [rig7-ga] nisaba munus ul-la gun3#-[a] munus zi dub-sar <nin> nig2-nam zu#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000482, ex. 028. 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 (P269129) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P269129..
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