Enuma Anu Enlil I-VI, pl. VII (no. 2)

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P240226

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Enuma Anu Enlil I-VI, pl. VII (no. 2). 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).

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Image: British Museum, London, UK (P240226) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P240226..

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