Position in chronology
Cuneiform tablet- fragment MET vs86.11.491
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
Attribution
Image: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art . See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet- fragment MET vs86.11.491.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet-_fragment_MET_vs86.11.491.jpg. Description: Babylonian or Achaemenid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
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