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SAA 07 043. Memorandum re Prefects’ Silver Payments (ADD 0686)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] 13 [...] (2) total, 21 minas [...]. (3) In all, 1 talent of silver. (4) These are the prefects [who] have not yet [paid ...]: (6) 1 mina, Na[bû-...]; (7) 1 mina, Mar-[...]; (r 1) 12 shekels, Ṭab-š[ar-...]; (r 2) 22 shekels ...[...]; (r 3) 1/2 mina, Šarru-l[u-...]; (r 4) 1 mina, Bel-šarru-uṣur of [...]; (r 5) 10 shekels, Nabû-[...]; (r 6) total, 7 prefect[s]; (r 7) total 7 1/2 minas [...]. (r 8) 4 shekels, N[N] (Rest destroyed)
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/P335568/
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x⸣ 13? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ⸢PAB 21⸣ MA.NA 01?+[x x x] / PAB 01 GÚ.UN KUG.⸢UD⸣ / an-nu-ti LÚv.GAR-⸢nu⸣-[MEŠ? ša (x x)] / ú-di-na la [id-din-u-ni] / 01 MA.NA md⸢PA?⸣—[x x (x x)] / 01 MA.NA mdDUMU.⸢x⸣+[x x (x x)] / 12 GÍN mDÙG.GA—⸢IM⸣—[x x] / 22 GÍN mKAD-[x x (x x)] / 1::2 MA.NA mMAN—⸢lu⸣—[x x] / 01 MA.NA mEN—MAN—PAB ša-[x x (x x)] / 10 GÍN mdPA—[x x (x x)] / PAB 07 LÚ.GAR-nu-[MEŠ? (x x)] / PAB 07 1::2 MA.NA ⸢x⸣+[x x (x x)] / 04? GÍN md⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335568.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335568). 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/P335568/.
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