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~1850 BCE·Old Babylonian

ETCSRI

Warad-Sin 32

(1) En-ane-du, en priestess of Nanna in Urim, child of Kudur-mabuk, sibling of Warad-Sin, king of Larsam.

Economy

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Warad-Sin 33

(1) Rim-Sin, child of Warad-Sin, king of Larsam.

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 06

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 15

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 15. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 21

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 21. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the tr…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in th…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

SA 175

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SA 175. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

SAOC 44, 67

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SAOC 44, 67. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliterat…

Law

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.

Warad-Sin 32

Warad-Sin 33

JCS 24, 093, 03

JCS 24, 093, 06

JCS 24, 093, 15

JCS 24, 093, 21

JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855

SA 175

SAOC 44, 67

Plimpton 322

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana A)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana B)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana D)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana G)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana O)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inanna C)

A diatribe against Engar-dug (Diatribe B)

A hymn to Ninkasi

A hymn to Nungal

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen A)

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen B)

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen C)

A love song of Shulgi (Shulgi Z)

A man and his god

A praise poem of Anam

A praise poem of Enlil-bani (Enlil-bani A)

A praise poem of Hammu-rabi (Hammu-rabi C)

A praise poem of Iddin-Dagan (Iddin-Dagan B)

A praise poem of Lipit-Eshtar (Lipit-Eshtar A)

A praise poem of S&icirc;n-iddinam (S&icirc;n-iddinam A)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi A)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi B)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi C)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi E)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi O)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi P)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi V)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi X)

A prayer for Rim-Sin entering the gate (Rim-Sin D)

A prayer for Rim-Sin (Rim-Sin E)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna B)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna C)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna G)

A song of Inana and Dumuzi (Dumuzi-Inana W)

A song of Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana C1)

A song of Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana D1)

An elegy on the death of Nannaya (Elegy 1)

An elegy on the death of Nawirtum (Elegy 2)

He is a good seed of a dog (Diatribe C)

Letter from Ur-dun to Shulgi about the purchase of cedar resin

A praise poem of Sîn-iddinam (Sîn-iddinam A)