CBS 04501

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The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P260816)

P260817 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000521, ex. 001 & 000522, ex. 002 & 000523, ex. 001

PBS 14, 0839 CBS 4514

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — CBS 04501. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P260816) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P260816..

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