CDLI Literary 000574, ex. 005

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

[iri-ga2 sag]-gin7# ku3 la#-[ba-ni-DU] sag siki mu-sir2# ba-[la2]
gu5#-li du10-sa zu-a kal-la-mu#
lu2 dili gu7-u3-gin7# igi tur mu-un-gi7-[i-esz]
ama ugu-mu u3-sakar ubur-[ra-bi]
du10#-ge-esz x-mu gu7-mu ka-mu#-[ta] ba-an-[kar]
a#-a-mu# [sza3] ur2#-bi#-ta# [gur3-gur3-ru-a] ki-ta ba-[an-gar-re-en]
[nin arhusz-a-mu] e2#-bi# ba-[kal igi] nu#-mu-un-szi#-[bar-re]
[gesz hul] gurun# nu-il2#-[la-gin7 lu2 na-ma-szi-hul2-le]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000574, ex. 005. 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 (P356218) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P356218..

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