Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1800 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

FLP 2164

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P460556

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — FLP 2164. 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: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P460556) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P460556..

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