CDLI Literary 000711, ex. 002

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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 P346273)

P346274 · ~1800 BCE

UET 6, 0189 + 0585

P346271 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000347, ex. 012

P346275 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000396, ex. 014

P346270 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000335, ex. 049

Transliteration

[...] x sag#? il2#? ni2 gur3-ru dumu ki ag2 an gal na-<nam>
[...]-IN#?-<SI>-na urasz-e tu-da sza3-ta nam-gal-sze3
[...] gi4#?-gi4 gal-di a#-a# gu2#-na agrig zi e2#?-ub-a
[...]-da szu du7 bara2#? ku3#?-ge4 he2-du7
[nig2]-nam#-ma-ni pa e3
nin-arhusz? ga-sza#?-an TA x x IGI SAR-SAR
nam-kur6 diri ka-ge2# dab#?-ba-za
a-ra mah-bi? sza#?-en#-x-x-e
a-a# gu2-zu en-na#? ku3#-ga# x
me-ta#? me duru5 za-ra ma-ra-ra-x-[...]
lipisz szu#?-nigin2 BU? DUB? zi-zi-le-dam#? lu2#? nu#-da#?-ta#? am3 x
[...] x zi#-zi# sza3-ta# [...]
lamma-zu#? lu2 til-le lu2#? ug5#?-[...] za-ra# mu-ra-an-BU
nin tu9-du11-ga-ni nu-ku5-a zi di zi x nu-szum2#?
gi-ge2-ge5#?-ig szu lu2 DI he2-DI-e sa2# nu-IG-sze-e

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000711, 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: British Museum, London, UK (P346273) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P346273..

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