Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

Cuneiform tablet1 plate1

~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: The image of the Tablet I Plate I (obr.) from L. W. King's book "The Seven Tablets of Creation"

Attribution

Image: Leonard William King — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet1 plate1.png. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet1_plate1.png. Description: The image of the Tablet I Plate I (obr.) from L. W. King's book "The Seven Tablets of Creation".

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