Position in chronology
MSL 12, 191 R
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P229551)
Transliteration
[lu2] sze bad-ra2 = %a bi#-e#-i#-szum# [lu2] sze gesz ra = %a ra-pi2-su [lu2] sze bir ak = %a sza qu3-li-ip-ti [lu2] sze sa-sa = %a mu-qa2-al-lu-u2 [lu2 sze] x#-HA = %a sza a-ba-ah-szi-in-ni [lu2 a-ba-ah-szi-in] = %a sza# a-ba-ah-szi-in-[ni] [lu2 ...] = %a [...]-x#-[...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — MSL 12, 191 R. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P229551) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P229551..
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