OIP 011, 229

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P227965)

P227966 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 009

P227964 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Lexical 000001, ex. 016 & 000039, ex. nn

P227963 · ~1800 BCE

OIP 011, p. 014, CBS 04814 (unpub. dup.)

P227967 · ~1800 BCE

OIP 011, p. 014, CBS 04818 (unpub. dup.)

Transliteration

tug2#
tug2 szutur#
tug2 dun!-dun
tug2 tag-tag
tug2 ib2-pesz
tug2 x# [...]
[...]-x#
[...] x#
[...]-dul5(GISZ)?#
[...] ur4#-a
[...] husz#-a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OIP 011, 229. 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 (P227965) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P227965..

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