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Position in chronology

Inscribed stone tablet of Entemena, 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Inscribed votive stone tablet of Entemena (also Enmetena), king of Lagash (it was found with a foundation bronze figurine). Circa 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Attribution

Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Inscribed stone tablet of Entemena, 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AInscribed_stone_tablet_of_Entemena%2C_2400_BCE._From_Lagash%2C_Iraq._Pergamon_Museum.jpg. Description: Inscribed votive stone tablet of Entemena (also Enmetena), king of Lagash (it was found with a foundation bronze figurine). Circa 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany..

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