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JAOS 088, 056ff 6 N-T 662
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Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — JAOS 088, 056ff 6 N-T 662. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: IM 061721 (National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P214863). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P214863..
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