Position in chronology
CDLI Literary 000733, ex. 008
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P346618)
Transliteration
gesztux(|GISZ.TUG2|)# nun galam-[... sag]-e-esz rig7-[...] uz#-nu-um ru-ba-tum na-ak#?-[... a]-na# sze-ri-ik-tim sza-ar-ka#-[...] abzux(DE2)? men gal eridu[-ga ...] hal-hal-[...] [...] x x x [...] mu#?-[zi-zu-um] nun#-bi nun hal#-hal#-[...] pirig# gal nam-nun#-[...] ru#-ba-szu ru-bu-u mu-zi-zu-um#? na#-adx(AB)-ru-um ra-bu-u2 sza ru?-bi-x e2# ni2 gur3-ru# luhsza eridu-ga#? bi#-tum sza pu-lu-uh2-ta-am na-da#?-[... lu]-uh2-szu sza eridu [...] gal# munsub? he-nun di4-di4-la2 [...]-x-a-ka ra-bu-u2 s,i-pi-ir-ti nu-uh2#?-[...] s,a-pi-ir [...] szu# luh-luh-ha-ke4 [en]-lil2 en gal-e [...]-um# sza qa2-ta-a-szu mi-sa3#? [... be]-lum ra-bu-um [...] e2#-engur-ra# [...]-a-[...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000733, ex. 008. 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 (P346618) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P346618..
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