Position in chronology
Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king
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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 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose, it's a receipt for the donation of l
Attribution
Image: Oregon State University — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASumerian_cuneiform_tablet_dating_approximately_2041_B.C._Is_a_receipt_for_the_donation_of_livestock_to_the_feast_for_a_Sumerian_king.jpg. Description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose, it's a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian kin.
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