Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~430 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

FLP 0652

~430 BCE·Achaemenid Persian·P459608

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The world it comes from

Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.

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From the same catalogue range (near P459608)

P459607 · ~1800 BCE
FLP 0651
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FLP 0653
P459610 · ~1800 BCE
FLP 0655
P459606 · ~580 BCE
FLP 0649

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — FLP 0652. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P459608) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P459608..

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