BE 20/1, 010

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The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P230011)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — BE 20/1, 010. 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: Ist Ni 00927 (cast: HS 0221) (Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P230011). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P230011..

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