Position in chronology
JAC 29, 023-030 05
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Transliteration
igi suen-x-x igi u-bar-x igi ut-ma-tum igi su-bu-um igi du-si-sza mu ha-am-mu-ra-pi2 lugal in-pa3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JAC 29, 023-030 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y1 — Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Anonymous 478825 (private: anonymous, Jerusalem) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P478825). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P478825..
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