RIME 4.01.04.05, ex. add19

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P274116

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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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. add19. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: private: anonymous, Germany (P274116) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P274116..

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