CDLI Literary 000795, ex. 055

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P254888)

CDLI Literary 000799, ex. 010

P254890 · ~1800 BCE

UET 6, 0322

Transliteration

ninda# he2-gal2
nin-kax(|U.PESZ2|) ib2#-gu7
ninda-gu10 he2-gal2
lu2-kur2 ib2-gu7

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000795, ex. 055. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P254888) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P254888..

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