RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 001, ex. 019

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450395

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Empire, library, terror, scholarship.

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 001, ex. 019. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P450395) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450395..

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