Position in chronology
SAA 07 024. Survey of Female Singers, etc. (ADD 0827+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 36 Aram[ean women]; (2) 15 Kushite women [...]; (3) 7 Assyrian women, m[aids of theirs]; (4) 4 replacement[s...]; (5) [x+]3 Tyrian wom[en ...]; (6) [x] Kass[ite women]; (Break) (11) [x fem]ale Cory[bantes]; (12) 3 women from Arpa[d]; (13) 1 replace[ment...]; (14) 1 woman from Ashd[od]; (15) 2 Hittite women, ...[......]. (16) In all, 94 (women and) 46 maids of theirs: (17) total, of the father of the crown prince; in all, 140. (18) The woman Šiti-tabni, 2 maids, ditto; (19) the woman Amat-Emuni, 3 ditto. (20) 8 female chief musicians; (21) 3 Aramean women; (22) 11 Hittite women; (23) 13…
Source: 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/P335671/
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Transliteration
⸢36*⸣ ár-ma-a.⸢a⸣-[te] / 15* ku-sa-a.a-⸢te⸣ [x x] / 07 aš-šur-a*.a-te ⸢GÉME⸣-[MEŠ-ši-na] / 04 ši-iḫ-lu ⸢PAB⸣ [62?] / [x]+03 MÍ.ṣur*-ra—[a.a-te] / [x MÍ].⸢kaš*⸣-šá-[a.a-te] / [x] ⸢MÍ⸣.KUR.GAR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ] / ⸢03⸣ ár-pad-⸢da⸣-[a.a-te] / 01 ši-iḫ-lu PAB 05 02 ⸢GÉME⸣-[MEŠ-ši-na] / 01 MÍ.as*-⸢du?⸣-[di]-te [x x x] / 02 ḫa-at-ta-a.⸢a-te MÍ.x⸣-[x x x] / PAB 94 <$x$> 46? GÉME-MEŠ-⸢ši*-na*⸣ [o] / PAB* ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335671.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335671). source
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/P335671/.
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