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~250 BCE·Achaemenid PersianEditorial

ZA 006, 217

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Hellenistic (323-63 BC)) — ZA 006, 217. 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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