CDLI Literary 000583, ex. 001

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

en-lil2-mas-su u3-na-a-du11
inim-inanna na-ab-be2-a
inim na-me ma-an-ne-esz-ma LUL-ASZ ba-hul2-le
lamma-u4-ti-la-a! kal-le lugal-szu2
na-bi-en-lil2 u3 en-lil2-al-sa6
um-mi-a szu igi du#-zu-ne
nin-imma3 dingir-zu
u3 nidaba gesztug2 dagal-la-ke4
gesztu2 ha-ra-ab-szum2#-mu-ne
nig2 im-ma ib2-sar-re-a
iri szu-bi nu-gi4 al-me-a nu-e#-zu
2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar 1(disz) tug2 2(disz) bar-si
lu2-gi-na szu mu-ra-ab-tak4#-[tak4 szu ti-ba-ab]
ha-la da-da ama-[zu] szu nam-bi2-te-en-te [x?]
a-ma-ru-kam

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000583, ex. 001. 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 (P269029) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P269029..

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