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LB 0874
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From the same catalogue range (near P389338)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — LB 0874. 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: de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland (P389338) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P389338..
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