Sumerian·Book

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Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters

~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 (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters

Attribution

Image: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934; King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919 — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMeaning_of_pre-cuneiform_pictogrpahic_characters.jpg. Description: Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters.

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