Position in chronology
UCP 09-03, 275-277, pl 1
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The world it comes from
Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — UCP 09-03, 275-277, pl 1. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; 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 (P247869) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P247869..
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