Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·AO 3866.jpg

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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 (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866 Ancient Near East Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

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Image: Gary Todd — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASumerian_Cuneiform_Stone_Tablet_AO_3866.jpg. Description: Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866 Ancient Near East Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com..

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