Position in chronology
Edinburgh 40
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 P453248)
Transliteration
_2(asz) 3(ban2) gur 3(disz) sila3 sze_ hu-bu-ta-tum _ki_ szum-szu-nu-wa-tar ha-si-qum _szu ba#-an#-ti_ _u4 buru14-sze3 sze i3-ag2-e_ _igi_ ka-bi-sum2 _igi_ im-di-er3-ra _igi_ ku-da-a-nu-um _igi_ a-ha-am-u2-ta _mu us2-sa a2-la2 e2# nanna-ra a mu-na-ru_ ha-si-qum dumu ha-li-dingir
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — Edinburgh 40. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (P453248) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P453248..
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