Position in chronology
UCP 10-01, 055
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 P248085)
Transliteration
2(barig) 1(ban2) 2(disz) 2/3(disz) qa _sze_ e-ri-ib-sin 2(barig) 1(ban2) 3(disz) 1/3(disz) qa e-ri-ba-am _lu2_ qi2-im _szunigin 4(barig) 3(ban2) gur _sze_ hu-bu-ta-tum _ki_ dingir-szu-na-s,ir _egir_ sza2 kit bad3-ri-musz isz-sza-ak-nu _szu ba-an-ti-mesz_ a-na masz-kan2-nim sze-am _i3-ag2-e-mesz_ u2-sze-te-eq-ma _masz2_ u2-s,a-ab _igi_ ma-nu-um _dumu_ utu-a-bu-um _igi_ e-ri-ba-am-sin _dumu_ lum-ma-dingir _mu gu4-apin ku3-sig17 iri_ sza-nu-hu-um
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UCP 10-01, 055. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (P248085) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248085..
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