Position in chronology
NATN 917
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P121614)
Transliteration
as,-ba-su ki-ma _i3_ ab2-ru-uq-szu ki na-ri-im ki _gal_-bi-im i3-na ki-sza-ti-szu ki me-ra-ni-im i3-na pi-ir-ti-szu _enuru_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) ?) — NATN 917. 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: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P121614) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P121614..
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