Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions.djvu

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

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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: History of cuneiform inscriptions. Library of Congress control no. 03002182

Attribution

Image: Arthur John Booth — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions.djvu. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADiscovery_and_Decipherment_of_the_Trilingual_Cuneiform_Inscriptions.djvu. Description: History of cuneiform inscriptions. Library of Congress control no. 03002182.

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