Position in chronology
CBS 03839
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.
From the same catalogue range (near P260209)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — CBS 03839. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P260209) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P260209..
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