LBAT 1199

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P364008.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Hellenistic (323-63 BC)) — LBAT 1199. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: BM 040083 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Bābili (mod. Babylon) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P364008). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P364008..

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