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Position in chronology

Cuneiform tablet- abzu pe-el-la-am, balag to Enki MET ME86 11 347

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

Not yet translated

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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 (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Parthian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Attribution

Image: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art . See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet- abzu pe-el-la-am, balag to Enki MET ME86 11 347.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet-_abzu_pe-el-la-am%2C_balag_to_Enki_MET_ME86_11_347.jpg. Description: Parthian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.

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