RIME 4.02.08.05, ex. 01

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P345487

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

nu-ur2-iszkur
nita kal-ga
engar zi uri5-ma
lugal larsa-ma
me esz3 e2-babbar-ra
ku3-ku3-ge
eridu u4 ul-li2-a-ta
szu mu-un-hul-a-ba
bala nig2-si-sa2-mu-usz
du3-de3 al bi2-du11
en-ki-ke4
ki-tusz ku3 ki-ag2-ga2-ni
mu-na-du3
gesz-hur ul-li2-a-ka-ni
ki-be2 mu-na-gi4

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — RIME 4.02.08.05, ex. 01. 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: British Museum, London, UK (P345487) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P345487..

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