BM 047361

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The world it comes from

Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.

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From the same catalogue range (near P370920)

P370927 · ~2050 BCE

PPAC 5, 1646

“5 (gur), šuku-allotment, field A-uri; foreman: Ur-Geštinanka. 5 (gur): Ur-Ištaran. The barley of the field — i…”

P370917 · ~1800 BCE

RIME 4.03.07.05Akkadian, ex. 02

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Achaemenid (547-331 BC)) — BM 047361. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: BM 047361 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Bābili (mod. Babylon) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P370920). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P370920..

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