Position in chronology
SAOC 44, 67
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P224367)
Transliteration
1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar masz2 1(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 6(disz) sze dah-he-dam ki suen-ta an-ne2-ba-ab-du7-ke4 szu ba-an-ti iti sig4-a-ka szum2-mu-dam igi suen-ra-bi igi ur-du6-ku3-ga iti NE-NE-gar mu ri-im-suen lugal-e e2 en-ki sza3 uri5-ma mu-du3-a
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SAOC 44, 67. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: IM 057849 (National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P224367). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P224367..
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