Position in chronology
Covenant tablets
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: cuneiform inscriptions. these are the initial words of the ten commandments. every word is compiled by the appropriate cuneiform syllables. the first word in the right column is hi-nu-a, it is the heb
Attribution
Image: ShlomoKatzav — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Covenant tablets.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACovenant_tablets.jpg. Description: cuneiform inscriptions. these are the initial words of the ten commandments. every word is compiled by the appropriate cuneiform syllables. the first word in the right column is hi-nu-a, it is the hebrew "anohi". the second word in the righ.
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