Venus pl. 3-4

~580 BCE·Neo-Babylonian·P412443

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Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P412443.

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Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — Venus pl. 3-4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P412443) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P412443..

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