IMJ 70.071.0580

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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 P464131)

P464132 · ~430 BCE

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P464127 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000778, ex. 015

P464119 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000339, ex. 056

P464143 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 055

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — IMJ 70.071.0580. 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: IMJ 70.071.0580 (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) — from uncertain (mod. Pasargadae) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P464131). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P464131..

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