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SAA 07 023. Survey of Harem Governesses and Weavers (ADD 0950)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335780

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 7
High confidence
(1) Harem governesses (2) Nineveh Central City; (3) Review Palace of Nineveh; (4) Review Palace of the New Contingent; (5) Naṣibina; (6) Šibaniba; (7) Bit-Adad-le'i; (8) Šudu; (9) Te'di; (10) Kahat; (11) 2, Sunê; (12) Tuphan; (13) the household of the Lady of the House. (14) Total, 13 [harem governesses]. (r 1) 25, (the land of) the chief cupb[earer]; (r 2) 20, Raṣappa; (r 3) 10, the palace herald; (r 4) 10, Urzuhina; (r 5) 5, Mazamua; (r 6) 25, Arrapha; (r 7) 30, Kar-Aššur; (r 8) 20, Lahiru; (r 9) Total, 145 weavers.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

MÍ.GAR-MEŠ / MURUB₄—URU ni-nu-a / KUR—ma-šar-te NINA.KI / KUR—ma-šar-te ki-ṣir GIBIL / URU.na-ṣib-na / URU.ši-ba-ni-ba / URU.É—m10*—ZU / URU.šu-u-du / URU.te-eʾ-di / URU.ka-ḫat / 02 URU.su-ni-e / URU.tup-ḫa-an / É GAŠAN—É / PAB 13 [MÍ.GAR-MEŠ] / 25 GAL—⸢KAŠ*⸣.[LUL] / 20 ra-ṣap-⸢pa⸣ / 10 600—KUR / 10 ur-zu-ḫi-na / 05 ma-za-mu-a / 25 arrap-ḫa / 30 kar—aš-šur / 20 la-ḫi-ru / PAB 01-me-45 / UŠ.BAR-MEŠ

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335780.

Attribution

Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 7), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335780/..
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1992. Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration. SAA 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa07/P335780/.

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