CDLI Literary 000561, ex. 004

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Transliteration

[lag]-e# a mi-ni-in-tu5-a sahar# igi-ga2 ba-e-DU
ur#-e ad6 ub-gu7 gaba-bi ib2-zi-zi
uszumgal#-e# sag gesz um-ra#-ra# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000561, ex. 004. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: IM 058335 (National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P356598). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356598..

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