A hand copy duplicates the exact appearance of the text which often is easier to see in this form than in a photograph. A transliteration reproduces the text in a standard alphabet. Cuneiform texts are usually transliterated in Roman letters. Semitic texts may be transliterated in Roman letters or in Semitic (for example, Hebrew) letters.
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