Position in chronology
ROM 910x209.643
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P417343.
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ROM 910x209.643. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: ROM 910x209.643 (Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P417343). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P417343..
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