Position in chronology
Clay tablet. Counting board, the archaic cuneiform sign "DUG" (vessel) appears. From Uruk, Iraq. End of the 4th millennium BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
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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: Clay tablet. Counting board; the archaic cuneiform sign "DUG" (vessel) appears. From Uruk, Iraq. End of the 4th millennium BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.
Attribution
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Clay tablet. Counting board, the archaic cuneiform sign "DUG" (vessel) appears. From Uruk, Iraq. End of the 4th millennium BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AClay_tablet._Counting_board%2C_the_archaic_cuneiform_sign_%22DUG%22_(vessel)_appears._From_Uruk%2C_Iraq._End_of_the_4th_millennium_BCE._Vorderasiatisches_Museum%2C_Berlin.jpg. Description: Clay tablet. Counting board; the archaic cuneiform sign "DUG" (vessel) appears. From Uruk, Iraq. End of the 4th millennium BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin..
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