Position in chronology
Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet recording barley allocations
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet: record of barley allocations. Ca. 13th century B.C.
Attribution
Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet recording barley allocations.png. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMiddle_Assyrian_cuneiform_tablet_recording_barley_allocations.png. Description: Cuneiform tablet: record of barley allocations. Ca. 13th century B.C..
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