Zukunftsbewältigung 538

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P240234

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Zukunftsbewältigung 538. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P240234) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P240234..

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