Babylonian tablet with envelope

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet with envelope, Babylon 200 - 1600 BC. The envelope has been broken, so the tablet inside is visible. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Attribution

Image: Maksim Sokolov (maxergon.com) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Babylonian tablet with envelope.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABabylonian_tablet_with_envelope.jpg. Description: Tablet with envelope, Babylon 200 - 1600 BC. The envelope has been broken, so the tablet inside is visible. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

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