CDLI Literary 000710, ex. 004

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P519581

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000710, ex. 004. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Saaedi 212 (private: Saaedi, London) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P519581). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P519581..

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