Position in chronology
UCP 10-01, 050
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P248094)
Transliteration
_9(asz) 4(barig) gur sze_ hu-bu-ta-tum _ki_ dingir-szu-na-s,ir u3 nanna-arhusz un-nu-bu-um _szu ba-an-ti_ a-na masz-kan2-nim sze-a-am _i3-ag2-e_ _igi_ ib-ni-iszkur _dumu_ ia-am-zi-ru _igi_ hu-pu-du-um _dumu_ a-hu-szi-na _mu tukul_ utu da-du-sza u2-sze-ri-bu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UCP 10-01, 050. 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: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (P248094) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P248094..
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