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The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The tablet dates back to the Old-Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 BCE.
Attribution
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_Newly_Discovered_Tablet_V_of_the_Epic_of_Gilgamesh._Meeting_Humbaba%2C_with_Enkidu%2C_at_the_Cedar_Forest._The_Sulaymaniyah_Museum%2C_Iraqi_Kurdistan.jpg. Description: The tablet dates back to the Old-Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 BCE..
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