CDLI Literary 000581, ex. 003

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P346260)

P346259 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000539, ex. 014 & 000540, ex. 016 & 000559, ex. 017 & 000574, ex. 015 & 000582, ex. 012

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CDLI Literary 000581, ex. 004

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Transliteration

ni2 te-ge26!?-ra u3-ne-de3-tah
u4 DA-na-gu10 ba-hu-hu-bu-usz2-en
mah-zu ib2-sur-en is-qu2-ka
[...] sag5 sza?-la su ib2-bu-usz2-en t,u-pu-ul-ka
[...] ke#-gu10-ta szu be2-dagx(KA2) ab-tu-uq
[...]-te-gu10-ne sza3-gu10 mud2 lugud2 ab-si
[...] x-tar-de3 zi ba-ir a-ta-szu#?-[...]
[...] nam# tar-ka nu-mu-ub-GA2 la ASZ-x-[...]
du11-ga en-lil2-ka musz2-me-zu igi he2#-[...]-du

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000581, 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: British Museum, London, UK (P346260) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P346260..

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