Position in chronology
Cuneiform Tablet LACMA M.41.5.1b (1 of 2)
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Mesopotamia, circa 2052 B.C. Tablets Clay Gift of Miss Carlotta Mabury (M.41.5.1b) Art of the Ancient Near East
Attribution
Image: Image: http://collections.lacma.org/sites/default/files/remote_images/piction/ma-31272250-O3.jpg Gallery: http://collections.lacma.org/node/228141 archive copy at the Wayback Machine — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform Tablet LACMA M.41.5.1b (1 of 2).jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_Tablet_LACMA_M.41.5.1b_(1_of_2).jpg. Description: Mesopotamia, circa 2052 B.C. Tablets Clay Gift of Miss Carlotta Mabury (M.41.5.1b) Art of the Ancient Near East.
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