Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1800 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial
Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AArchaic_cuneiform_tablet_E.A._Hoffman.jpg. Description: Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman

Attribution

Image: Barton, George A. (12 November 1859 – 28 June 1942) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AArchaic_cuneiform_tablet_E.A._Hoffman.jpg. Description: Archaic cuneiform tablet E.A. Hoffman.

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