Position in chronology
SAA 07 047. Memorandum re Activities of a Eunuch, etc. (ADD 1076)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(i 1) He said: "Dari-šarru, Kushite eunuch, came up for an emergency concerning the case of Ahu-sapa of Kummuh and received 1 talent of silver from me." (i 6) Total of the deputy of Raṣappa. (i 7) He said: "Dari-šarru, ditto, took 2 minas of silver by force (and) wrote 5 minas in the debt-note." (i 11) Total of the deputy of Lahiru. (i 12) He said: "Dari-šarru, ditto, 4 minas, capital of his silver [......]." (Break) (ii 1) He said: "Kiṣir-Issar, the limestone-provider, entered (into service) under Šulmu-šarri, the Kushite eunuch; Šulmu-šarri sent a royal bodyguard over to me, and he received…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ma-a mdà-ri—MAN LÚv.SAG / ku-sa-a ina UGU de-ni / šá mPAB—sa*-pa KUR.ku-muḫ-a / a-na dan-nu-te e-te-li-a / 01 GÚ KUG.UD it-taḫ-ra-an*-ni / PAB 02-i URU.ra-ṣap-pa / ma-a mdà-ri—MAN :. / 02 MA KUG.UD da-an-at?-te / it-ti-ši 05 MA.NA / ina ŠÀ e-gír-te is-sa-ṭar / PAB 02-i la-ḫi-ri / ma mdà-ri—MAN :. / 04 MA SAG.DU KUG.UD-šu / [x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ / ma mki-ṣir—d15 / LÚv.šá—pu-li-šú* / ina šá-pal…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335890.
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/P335890/..
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/P335890/.
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