Kress 256

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P481941

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P481941.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Kress 256. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 256 (private: anonymous, Germany) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P481941). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P481941..

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