Position in chronology
TJA UMM G 15
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P315336)
Transliteration
_1(disz) udu siskur2#_ [a-na ]urasz# a-na szu-lum ku-ub-bu-rum _ki-gub_ u3 _gir2 sza?-gub kal_ i-szu _silim_ i-szu _ze2 za3_ ki-na-at i-na ni-ri _tukul_ sza _abul_ i-t,ul i-na ku-ta-al _mur_ sza _za3 gir3_ re-esz _mur gub3_ sza-ti-iq 1(u) 2(disz) ti-ra-nu _iti szu-numun-a u4 2(disz)-kam_ _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e alan-a-ni# szu# silim-ma-a#_ [...] x [x]_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TJA UMM G 15. 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 (P315336) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315336..
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