Position in chronology
BIN 10, 082
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P236626)
Transliteration
[n] kusz# x [...] e3-ni-[...] 1(u) gin2 sze-[gin2] sza3-bi-ta 2(disz) za3-mi sumun 2(disz) sza3-TAR ba-a-si e2 nar ki u4-bar-ra giri3 en-[x]-lu 5(disz) gin2 sze-gin2 kin nagar giri3 gal-ba-na-du6-lu u4 2(u) 2(disz)-kam [...] x x [...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — BIN 10, 082. 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: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P236626) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P236626..
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