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Position in chronology

Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP247102

~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 (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Stone-Tablets-Inscribed

Attribution

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Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP247102.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStone_cuneiform_tablet_with_inscription_of_Ashurnasirpal_II_MET_DP247102.jpg. Description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Stone-Tablets-Inscribed.

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