Position in chronology
BRM 4, 48
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From the same catalogue range (near P363413)
Transliteration
ana marduk _umun_-szu2 na3-nig2-du-uri3 _lugal_ tin-tir _dumu_ pa-a-uri3 ana _tin_-szu2 _ba_
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — BRM 4, 48. 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: MLC 02624 (J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P363413). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P363413..
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