Position in chronology
Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer
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This tablet is catalogued and photographed, but no English translation is stored in this record yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer; 3100-3000 BC (Late Prehistoric period); height: 9.4 cm, width: 6.87 cm; probably from southern Iraq; British Museum (ME 140855). https://www.brit
Attribution
Image: BabelStone — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEarly_writing_tablet_recording_the_allocation_of_beer.jpg. Description: Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer; 3100-3000 BC (Late Prehistoric period); height: 9.4 cm, width: 6.87 cm; probably from southern Iraq; British Museum (ME 140855). https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1989-0.
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