Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

N 4125

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P279000

Not yet translated

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

[...] e2# du3-a#
[da] e2# ur-du6-ku3-ga dumu lu2-x-[...]
e2# a-li2-wa-aq-ru-um dumu ip-qu2-sza
ki a-li2-wa-aq-ru-um
im-gur-ru-um dumu lugal-ezem
in-szi-in-sa10
sa10 til-la-bi-sze3
1(u) 8(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar
in-na#-an-la2
[... a-li2]-wa-aq-ru-um
iti sze-sag11-ku5
mu ki 7(disz) us2-sa [ri]-im#-suen lugal-e [...] ba-dab5-ba
a-li2-wa-aq-ru-[um]
dumu ip-qu2-[sza]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — N 4125. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P279000) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P279000..

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