Position in chronology

Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E)

~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 (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E). Source: A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, p.22

Attribution

Image: Color photograph: Gary Todd Drawing: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934; King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919 Black and white photograph: Pymouss — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E).jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATemple_evolution_in_cuneiform_(sound_E).jpg. Description: Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E). Source: A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, p.22.

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