Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

State Library of Victoria - Joy of Museums - Cuneiform Tablet

~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 (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: State Library of Victoria, Australia - see www.joyofmuseums.com

Attribution

Image: GordonMakryllos — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:State Library of Victoria - Joy of Museums - Cuneiform Tablet.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AState_Library_of_Victoria_-_Joy_of_Museums_-_Cuneiform_Tablet.jpg. Description: State Library of Victoria, Australia - see www.joyofmuseums.com.

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