CDLI Literary 000764, ex. 020

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

[...] x x
[...] BUR2#-bi im-me#
[...]-na-ni-ib2-gi4-gi4#
[... su]-ul#-su-ul [...] sal-sal
[...]-bi ka-bi sza3-gal-gal u4 szu2-szu2
[...] x zi mu-e-da-an-ir-re
[...] x-la RI-RI#? nu-ga2-ga2
[...] x-zukumx(|ZI&ZI.MIN|)-zukumx(|ZI&ZI.MIN|) [...]-x-tar
[...] x x x
[...]-gin7 amar-x-[...]
[... mu]-un-gar
[...]-gul#-gul [... mu]-un-bur12
[...]-gaz-[gaz] [...]-mi#-in#-[...]
[...] mu#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000764, ex. 020. 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 (P346665) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P346665..

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