Position in chronology
CDLJ 2010/1 §6.09
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Aššur the merchant city — the great trade with Anatolia.
From the same catalogue range (near P393104)
Transliteration
_7(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ sza-ni-am _igi_ a-szur3-i-di3 a-na i-ku!-nim!? a-di2-in# sza sza-lim#!-esz18-dar
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — CDLJ 2010/1 §6.09. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Harvard Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P393104) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P393104..
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