Cuneiform tablet - Petra

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet - Petra.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_-_Petra.JPG. Description: Cuneiform tablet written in Harran to record a contract between two Arameans and an Edomite, Qos-Shama. 1st year of Darius, most likely Darius I. 520 BCE. . Petra Archaeological Museum

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet written in Harran to record a contract between two Arameans and an Edomite, Qos-Shama. 1st year of Darius, most likely Darius I. 520 BCE. . Petra Archaeological Museum

Attribution

Image: Chamberi — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform tablet - Petra.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_tablet_-_Petra.JPG. Description: Cuneiform tablet written in Harran to record a contract between two Arameans and an Edomite, Qos-Shama. 1st year of Darius, most likely Darius I. 520 BCE. . Petra Archaeological Museum.

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