Position in chronology
TJA UMM G 33
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P315344)
Transliteration
_1(disz) udu siskur2_ a-na urasz _ki-gub tuku gir2 tuku_ szu-bat _za3 gir2 szu-si gub3 gir2 gar_ _kal tuku silim tuku_ _ze2 za3 gi-na_ i-na _gub3 ze2 2(disz) gir3#_ i-na szub gu-za [x] x x i-t,ul ni-ru ha-x-[...] x x x [...] [...] [...] sza ku-ub-bu-rum _ugula dam#-gar3-[mesz]_ _iti sze-sag11-ku5 u4 2(u)# 5(disz)-kam_ _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e ki-lugal-gub i3-mah-a_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA UMM G 33. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (P315344) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315344..
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