CUSAS 17, 104

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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 P251646)

P251612 · ~2400 BCE

CUSAS 35, 315

“(Obverse) 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 10, 10, …”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC) ?) — CUSAS 17, 104. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Schøyen Collection, Oslo, Norway (P251646) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P251646..

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