MDP 17, 078

~3000 BCE·Uruk Period·P008276

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P008276.

Transliteration

[...] ,
[...] M096# M377 M388 M242# M218 , 1(N39B)
[...] , 3(N01)
M346~a4 , 2(N01)
M367 , 1(N14) 2(N01)#
x , 2(N01)#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Proto-Elamite (ca. 3100-2900 BC)) — MDP 17, 078. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P008276) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P008276..

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