Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOld_Babylonian_baked_clay_cylinder._The_Akkadian_cuneiform_inscription_mentions_a_capacity_table._18th-16th_century_BCE._From_Iraq._Vorderasiatisches_Museum%2C_Berlin.jpg. Description: Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

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Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

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Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOld_Babylonian_baked_clay_cylinder._The_Akkadian_cuneiform_inscription_mentions_a_capacity_table._18th-16th_century_BCE._From_Iraq._Vorderasiatisches_Museum%2C_Berlin.jpg. Description: Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin..

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