Position in chronology
CDLI Literary 000762, ex. 005
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Transliteration
e2#-me#-[esz ...] e2-a-na uluszin3# [...] za3-bi-a bun# [...] nam-szesz nam-du10-sa i3#? [...] murub6-ba inim du10-ga ga2-[...] e2-me-esz en-te-[en-bi-da ...] en-te-en engar zi# [...] e2-me-esz-a? [...] kur-gal a-a [en-lil2 ...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000762, ex. 005. 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 (P346122) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P346122..
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