Position in chronology
Cuneiform tablet, legal document concerning a trial, Sumer, modern Iraq, c. 2037-2029 BC - Spurlock Museum, UIUC - DSC05943
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Exhibit in the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. CDLI: https://cdli.earth/artif
Attribution
Image: Daderot — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet, legal document concerning a trial, Sumer, modern Iraq, c. 2037-2029 BC - Spurlock Museum, UIUC - DSC05943.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet%2C_legal_document_concerning_a_trial%2C_Sumer%2C_modern_Iraq%2C_c._2037-2029_BC_-_Spurlock_Museum%2C_UIUC_-_DSC05943.jpg. Description: Exhibit in the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. CDLI: https://cdli.earth/artifacts/200731.
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