OIP 104, 016a

~2550 BCE·Early Dynastic·P220621

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The world it comes from

City-states, kings, the first wars.

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From the same catalogue range (near P220621)

P220631 · ~2800 BCE

OIP 104, 017

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) ?) — OIP 104, 016a. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P220621) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P220621..

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