Position in chronology
RIME 4.01.04.04, ex. 03
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P427809)
Transliteration
en-an-na-tum2-ma en ki-ag2 nanna en nanna sza3 uri5-ma dumu isz-me-da-gan lugal ki-en-gi ki-uri
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — RIME 4.01.04.04, ex. 03. 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). [year-name] Dated to Išme-Dagan y1 — Išme-Dagan became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: British Museum, London, UK (P427809) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P427809..
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