Position in chronology
TJA UMM G 02
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P315328)
Transliteration
_1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ [...] [...] x x x sza# _mu_ am#-mi#-s,a#-du#-qa2# _lugal-e [ki]-lugal#-gub# i3-mah-a_ _mu-kux(DU)_ ad#-di-li-ib-lu-ut,# nam#!-har-ti amar-utu-mu-ba-li2#-it, _dumu_ ib-ni-e2-a _igi_ ig-mil-isz8-tar2 _zabar-dab5_ _igi_ suen-re-me-ni _igi_ iszkur-lu-numun _dub-sar_ _iti sig4-a u4# 1(u)# 3(disz)-kam_ _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e ki-lugal-gub i3-mah-a# _kiszib_ amar-utu-mu#-ba-li2-it,
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA UMM G 02. 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 (P315328) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315328..
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