RIME 4.02.09.11, ex. 03

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P427971

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — RIME 4.02.09.11, ex. 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P427971) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427971..

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