Position in chronology
Tablet city seal offering Ashmolean
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet, with record of offerings to temples, possibly by a league of cities, whose seals are impressed on the sides of the tablet (so-called "city seals"). Ashmolean Museum AN1926.591. https
Attribution
Image: Zunkir — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Tablet city seal offering Ashmolean.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATablet_city_seal_offering_Ashmolean.jpg. Description: Cuneiform tablet, with record of offerings to temples, possibly by a league of cities, whose seals are impressed on the sides of the tablet (so-called "city seals"). Ashmolean Museum AN1926.591. https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/4854.
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