Sumerian·Book

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Cuneiform Tablet, Nippur

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·Nippur.jpg

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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 (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Photo of Exhibit at the Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv - en:Beit Hatefutsot . The note reads: A lease of land, written in cuneiform in clay tablet, with comments in Aramaic. Nippur, Babylonia, 5th century

Attribution

Image: Sodabottle — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform Tablet, Nippur.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_Tablet%2C_Nippur.jpg. Description: Photo of Exhibit at the Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv - en:Beit Hatefutsot . The note reads: A lease of land, written in cuneiform in clay tablet, with comments in Aramaic. Nippur, Babylonia, 5th century BCE, Facsimile. The tablet was found in.

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