Position in chronology
Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals Old Assyrian
Not yet translated
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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 tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.15a. Full description available at the museum website .
Attribution
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals Old Assyrian.png. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_case_impressed_with_four_cylinder_seals_Old_Assyrian.png. Description: Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.15a. Full description available at the museum website ..
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