BT 06

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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 P415952)

P415953 · ~1800 BCE

BT 08

P415954 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 011

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — BT 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: BT 06 (Brockmon Collection, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P415952). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P415952..

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