CDLI Literary 000577, ex. 002

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

[lugal]-me# u3-na-du11
ensi2 saga-ke4 na-ab-be2-a
[a-sza3] da#-ab-ta szar2-szar2-szar2 iku
esz2-gar3 en-lil2 u3 nin-urta
sza3-bi-ta bur3-bur3-bur3-am3 szukur2 lu2 nig2-dab5#-ba#-ke4-ne
bur3-am3 sa-dur2 a-sza3#-ga-bi
iq-bi-szum2 u3 a-bi-qa2-ti-e inim mu-da-an-gar-re-esz
tukum-bi lugal-me an-na-kam
ra#-gaba hu-mu-szi-in-gi4-gi4#-ma
erin2 tah-hu-um engar sza3-gu4 lu2 apin-na nu-me-a
gu4# dili-dili-ta# a#-sza3# gisz bi2-ur3
[al i3-ak]-en#-de3-en lugal-mu he2-en-zu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000577, ex. 002. 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 (P257244) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P257244..

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