Position in chronology
SAA 07 028. List of Debts in Si’imme Province (ADD 0814)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(i 1) The village of Qu[...], (i 2) the village of Ha[...], (i 3) the village of Ṣil-[...], (i 4) in [their] entir[ety], (i 5) including [their] gardens, (i 6) at the disposal of Šarrat-samme-il[a'i]. (i 7) 1 talent 1 mina, Mannu-ki-[...], chief of the sailors. (i 9) [x mi]nas, Padî, chief of the carpenter[s]. (i 10) [x+]1 talents, Marduk-eriba, prefect of the staff-bearers. (i 12) [x+]10 minas, Sin-šarru-uṣur, servant of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor. (i 14) [x+]2 talents, Ili-zabada, scribe of the mayor of Nineveh. (i 16) Total: Sime-ila', deputy. (i 17) 20 minas, Padî, village-manager, of the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
URU.ŠE—qu-[x x x x x] / URU.ŠE—ḫa-[x x x x x] / URU.ŠE—m*ṣil-[x x x x x] / a-na gi-⸢mir⸣-[ti-šú-nu] / a-di GIŠ.SAR-⸢MEŠ*⸣-[šú-nu] / ina IGI mGAŠAN—sam-me—⸢DINGIR*⸣-[a.a] / ⸢01?⸣ GÚ 01 MA mman-nu—ki-i—[x x] / LÚ.GAL—MÁ.DU.DU-MEŠ [o] / [x] ⸢MA⸣ mpa-di-i GAL—NAGAR-[MEŠ] / [x]+1 GÚ mdMES—SU GAR-nu / šá LÚ.PA-MEŠ / [x]+10 MA md30—MAN—PAB LÚ.ARAD / ⸢šá⸣ mdPA—MAN—PAB LÚ.EN.NAM / [x]+2* GÚ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335659.
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/P335659/..
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/P335659/.
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