Kress 200

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P427668

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427668.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — Kress 200. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 200 (private: anonymous, Germany) — from Isin (mod. Bahriyat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P427668). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P427668..

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