KTT 021

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P392662

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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From the same catalogue range (near P392662)

Transliteration

1(disz) ia8-qi2-ru-um
1(disz) en-na-zu
1(disz) ni-i-isz-dingir
1(disz) ia8-tin-il3
1(disz) sa3-mu-iti
1(disz) zi masz? a masz?
1(disz) _tur_ i3-li2-kun

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — KTT 021. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: National Museum of Syria, Raqqa, Syria (P392662) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392662..

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