Position in chronology
AOAT 275, 666, U. 02815
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From the same catalogue range (near P349826)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — AOAT 275, 666, U. 02815. 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).
Attribution
Image: British Museum, London, UK (P349826) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P349826..
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