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United States versus Approximately 450 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets, 2017 (page 1 crop)

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·United

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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 (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: This is a United States government court filing from a smuggling case involving Hobby Lobby and archaeological looting in Iraq .

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Image: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:United States versus Approximately 450 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets, 2017 (page 1 crop).jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AUnited_States_versus_Approximately_450_Ancient_Cuneiform_Tablets%2C_2017_(page_1_crop).jpg. Description: This is a United States government court filing from a smuggling case involving Hobby Lobby and archaeological looting in Iraq ..

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