OIM A03423

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P500447.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — OIM A03423. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: OIM A03423 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Uruk (mod. Warka) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P500447). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P500447..

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