Position in chronology
JCS 04, 104 UIOM 2021
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
From the same catalogue range (near P420401)
Transliteration
3(disz) udu-nita2 e2 utu 1(disz) udu-nita2 e2 iszkur 1(disz) u8 e2 inanna 1(disz) u8 e2 na-na-a-a 1(disz) udu-nita2 e2 nergal 1(u) udu-nita2 siskur2 e2-an-na 2(disz) udu-nita2 za3 ku3 la2 u3 2(disz) udu-nita2 za3 ku3 la2 e2 nam-dumu-ni () 1(u) u8 udu hi-a ki sza!-urasz ba-zi kiszib3 sza3-tam-e-ne iti sig4-a u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam mu ma-da asz2-nun ba-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 04, 104 UIOM 2021. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P420401) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P420401..
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