Position in chronology
Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Semitic Babylonian Contract-tablet. Inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi with a deed recording the division of property. The actual tablet is on the right; that which appears to be another and larger t
Attribution
Image: Photograph by Messrs. Mansell & Co. — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASemitic_Babylonian_contract-tablet.jpg. Description: Semitic Babylonian Contract-tablet. Inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi with a deed recording the division of property. The actual tablet is on the right; that which appears to be another and larger tablet on the left is the hollow clay cas.
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