Position in chronology
RA 050, 202 07
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P009486.
Transliteration
|M327+M324|# M393~fa M051~b M512 M374~c , 1(N01) M243~c , 3(N01) M297 , 3(N01) M288 , 4(N01) M288 , 1(N14) 4(N01)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Proto-Elamite (ca. 3100-2900 BC)) — RA 050, 202 07. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P009486) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P009486..
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