RIME 4.01.05.04, ex. add116

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P433173

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Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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P433194 · ~3100 BCE

CUSAS 31, 054

“[...] |DU8~cxAMAR| AB~a 2(N14) 6(N01) [= 26], MUN~a1 5(N01), KUR~a |DU8~cxAMAR|[?] 3(N01), MUN~a1 E2~a[?] [...…”

P433196 · ~3100 BCE

CUSAS 31, 189

“5 , EN [...]\n5 , E2 DA\n5 , EN SAG[?]\n5 , EN DU[?]\n5 , [X]\n5 , [X]\n4 , MAR [...]\n5 , GAN2\n4 , NAGA\n2 ,…”

P433198 · ~3100 BCE

CUSAS 31, 055

“[KISZ?] [...] Salt: 5 [units] [...] Salt: 3 [units] [...] 20 [...] [...] 5 [units], |day×3(N57)| 4 [units], |d…”

P433200 · ~3100 BCE

CUSAS 31, 170

“[...] [...] 1 , jar 3 , person(s) X 2 , EN [of/at] Šuruppak [...] [...] IB 5 , male sheep/goat(s) 1 , [ZATU676…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — RIME 4.01.05.04, ex. add116. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P433173) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P433173..

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