RIME 4.01.04.05, ex. add18

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P272788

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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P272826 · ~3000 BCE

MDP 06, 4998

“[...] [...] 2(N39B) 1(N24) [M347?] [M370?] |M347+X|? [sign] [...] [...] [...] [...] 1(N39B) [M010~2] : 4(N14) …”

P272827 · ~3000 BCE

MDP 06, 5000

“M157 [heading/rubric] [x] M297[?] , 2(N14) M038~e , 1(N01) 1(N39B) M305~i [x] [...] , [...] 1(N24) 1(N30C) M28…”

P272828 · ~3000 BCE

Sb 15222

“M157# [heading/rubric sign — function unknown] M386~da M304 M297 : 1(N01) 2(N30C) 1(N30D)# [x] M139 M29…”

P272789 · ~2130 BCE

RIME 3/1.01.07.037, ex. add1184

Transliteration

isz-me-da-gan
nita kal-ga
lugal i3-si-in-na
lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba-ke4
u4 nibru
iri ki-ag2 en-lil2-la2
gu2-bi mu-un-du8
erin2-bi kaskal-ta ba-ra-an-zi-ga-a
bad3-gal i3-si-in-na
mu-un-du3
bad3-ba
isz-me-da-gan
en-lil2-da a2-an-gal
mu-bi-im

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — RIME 4.01.04.05, ex. add18. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 001 (private: anonymous, Germany) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P272788). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P272788..

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