Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress

~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: Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress

Attribution

Image: Salvor — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARitmal-Cuneiform_tablet_-_Kirkor_Minassian_collection_-_Library_of_Congress.jpg. Description: Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress.

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