Turkish - Cappadocian Tablet with Cumeiform Inscription - Walters 481463 - View A

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·unglazed

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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: This tablet is unglazed.

Attribution

Image: Anonymous ( Turkey ) Unknown author — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Turkish - Cappadocian Tablet with Cumeiform Inscription - Walters 481463 - View A.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATurkish_-_Cappadocian_Tablet_with_Cumeiform_Inscription_-_Walters_481463_-_View_A.jpg. Description: This tablet is unglazed..

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