Chapter 05 · 2000 – 1600 BCE

Old Babylonian

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

Illustration: A teacher and apprentice working with clay tablets in a Babylonian courtyard
A Babylonian scribal school, around 1750 BCE.

~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2006

“(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], strong king. Ammī-iluna, son of Irra-i[...], his servant.”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005663/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2007

“(1) Yattiya, son of Samsī-malik, servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005664/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2008

“(1) [Ya]matti-[El], son of Ḫata ..., servant of [Ša]mšī-Ad[ad (I)].”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005665/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2009

“(1) Tarim-š[akim], servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005666/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2010

“(1) Umannisuṭa, son of Idin-[...], servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005667/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2011

“(1) Adad-saga, son of Ḫaziya, servant of Šamšī-[Adad (I)].”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005668/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2012

“(1) [M]ašiya, son of Šalim-[...], servant of Šam[šī-Adad (I)].”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005669/

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~1900 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses

Šamši-Adad I 2013

“(1) Lu-Ninsianna, son of ..., servant of Šamšī-Adad (I).”

Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005670/

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