Position in chronology
CT 32, pl. 01-04 BM 091022 (Cruciform Monument)
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427605.
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) ?) — CT 32, pl. 01-04 BM 091022 (Cruciform Monument). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: BM 091022 (was BM 012164; cast: SM 1891.03.008) (British Museum, London, UK; Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P427605). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427605..
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