Position in chronology
Edinburgh 50
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P453227)
Transliteration
_4(asz) gur sze masz2 nu-tuku_ _ki_ szum-szu-nu-wa-tar2 utu-ma-an-szum2 _dumu_ i3-li2-ki-ti _szu ba-an-ti#_ _u4 buru14-sze3 i3-ag2-e#_ _igi_ i3-li2-ki-ti _igi_ isz-me-suen _igi_ i-di-isz-za-ba4-ba4 _igi_ im-di-er3-ra _iti udru mu us2-sa a2-la2 mu-na-an-dim2_ utu-ma-an-szum2 dumu i3-li2-ki-ti
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — Edinburgh 50. 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: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (P453227) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P453227..
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