Position in chronology
UCP 10-01, 005
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P248066)
Transliteration
_3(u) 3(asz) 1(barig) 2(ban2) gur sze_ hu-bu-ta-tum _ki_ dingir-szu-na-s,ir u3 nanna-arhusz ab-di-e-ra-ah _dumu_ ARAD-tiszpak _szu ba-an-ti_ a-na masz-kan2-nim sze-a-am _i3-ag2-e_ _igi_ a-li2-ba-ni-szu _szagina_ utu-na-s,ir _dumu_ suen-i-qi2-sza-am ri-isz-utu _dumu_ ARAD-sin u3 mu-na-nu-um _dub-sar_ _mu_ utu-szi-iszkur _ba-usz2!_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UCP 10-01, 005. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (P248066) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248066..
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