Position in chronology
AAA 1/3, 13
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Aššur the merchant city — the great trade with Anatolia.
From the same catalogue range (near P360984)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 13. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: LIA 13 (Liverpool Institute of Archeology, Liverpool, UK) — from Kanesh (mod. Kültepe) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P360984). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P360984..
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