Position in chronology
CDLI Literary 000575, ex. 004
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P262886)
Transliteration
[...] na#-[ab-be2-a] ur-gin7 ki gam-ma nu-zu szu dag-[dag-ge ba-si] muszen szu sur2-du3-ta dal#-a#-gin7 ur5#-[da i3-ak-en] kiri6 ma-ta nu-du11#-ga-gin7 asil3#-[la2-mu hab2-ba ba-an-ug5] igi la2# e2 lugal-ga2-ke4 ib2-[si-ge inim-gar gig ma-la2] [...]-am3# ur-gin7 x# [...] u3?-u8-LA-[u8] [...] gu4-gin7 mur-ga2 eme ba-szub6# [nu-tuku-gin7] szu sza-an-sza pesz11 amar-mu gud3-bi# zi ba-ni-in-gi4 ka u2 KA ba#?-[pesz] edin KAL im-ri-a-gin7 e2 ur5-ur5-ra ba-[dab5-be2] ug5-ga ki nu-tum2-ma-me-en sze-gin7 ar3-[ar3] [...] szesz-mu lu2 kur2 nu-me-a igi tur mu-un#-[gid2] [x x] gu2# ki#-sze3# [ba-la2]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000575, ex. 004. 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 (P262886) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P262886..
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