Kress 200

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P427668

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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P427666 · ~2050 BCE

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P427655 · ~2800 BCE

FMB 27

“PA~a GU4(?) 4(N14) — NESAG~a, KI~a, EN~a, NAM2, KAB, GAR 5(N14) — GAN2, AB~a, X, EN~a(?) 3(N14) — X, AD~c(?) 3…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — Kress 200. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 200 (private: anonymous, Germany) — from Isin (mod. Bahriyat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P427668). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427668..

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