Position in chronology

GigaMesh Screenshot 20200115 Salmanasssar III Tablet Fragment

~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 (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Screenshot of GigaMesh v.200115. The shown 3D-model is a fragment of a clay tablet with cuneiform script about king Shalmaneser III with segmented groups of wedges.

Attribution

Image: Enki75 — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:GigaMesh Screenshot 20200115 Salmanasssar III Tablet Fragment.png. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGigaMesh_Screenshot_20200115_Salmanasssar_III_Tablet_Fragment.png. Description: Screenshot of GigaMesh v.200115. The shown 3D-model is a fragment of a clay tablet with cuneiform script about king Shalmaneser III with segmented groups of wedges..

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