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Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, including the ex-king of Judah, Jehoi
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Image: Scallaham — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJehoiachin_Ration_Tablet_detail.jpg. Description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, including the ex-king of Judah, Jehoiachin, deported in 597 BC in Babylon, wi.
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