Position in chronology

BM; ANE - RM 55, Cuneiform Tablets Display.1 cropped

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

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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 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: clay tablet with cuneiform script : K.7592,

Attribution

Image: Mujtaba Chohan, British Museum visit — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:BM; ANE - RM 55, Cuneiform Tablets Display.1 cropped.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABM%3B_ANE_-_RM_55%2C_Cuneiform_Tablets_Display.1_cropped.JPG. Description: clay tablet with cuneiform script : K.7592,.

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