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CDLI Seals 006634 (physical)
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From the same catalogue range (near P472889)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)) — CDLI Seals 006634 (physical). 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: Ashm 1891-0453 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P472889). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P472889..
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