Iraq 35, pl. 13 (no. 7)

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P430870

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Iraq 35, pl. 13 (no. 7). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P430870..

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