Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1800 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

Cuneiform tablet-MAHG 15856-IMG 9472-black

~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 (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet-MAHG 15856-IMG 9472-black

Attribution

Image: Rama — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet-MAHG 15856-IMG 9472-black.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet-MAHG_15856-IMG_9472-black.jpg. Description: Cuneiform tablet-MAHG 15856-IMG 9472-black.

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