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 2014

“(1) [Zi]mrī-ḫammu, [son of S]umu-ammim, 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/Q005671/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2015

“(1) D[agān-...], son of ...[...], servant of Šamšī-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/Q005672/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2016

“(1) Ṣurri-Adad, [son of Z]idriya, [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/Q005673/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2017 / CDLI Seals 009443

“(1) Ibāl-eraḫ, son of Kiabkurānu, 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/Q005674/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2018

“(1) Laḫar-abī, the scribe, son of Kakisum, 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/Q005675/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2019

“(1) Sîn-iqīšam, son of Būr-Adad, 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/Q005676/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2020 / CDLI Seals 008051

“(1) Rīš-ilu, son of Aduanniam, 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/Q005677/

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

Šamši-Adad I 2021

“(1) Pazaya, son of Aḫi-šakim, 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/Q005678/

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