Position in chronology
Calendars 070, NBC 7439
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P200608)
Transliteration
iti amar-a-a-si sa2#? iti sze-sag11-ku5 iti sze-il2-la iti buru14-masz iti gu4-ra2-bi2-mu2-mu2 iti ezem-li9-si4 iti szu-numun-a iti munu4-gu7 iti ezem-dumu-zi-da iti ezem-szul-gi iti ezem-ba-ba6 iti mu-szu-du7 () 1(u) 2(disz) iti gir2-su
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC) ?) — Calendars 070, NBC 7439. 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: Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (P200608) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P200608..
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