Position in chronology
SAA 07 052. Fragment of Tablet Inventory (JNES 42 24)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) [x, Enuma] Anu Enlil, (2) [x], Šumma Izbu, (3) [x, Gu]rrum = mahīrum, (4) [x, "If a she]ep's ear is short," (5) [x, "If a she]ep cries baa," (6) [x, c]ommentary, (7) [x], anomaly apotropaion, (8) [x], Šumma Izbu. (9) [1]12, 1 missing, "If a city is set on a hill," (10) [x+]37, physiognomic omen series, (11) including uncanonical nigdimdimmû omens, (12) [..., k]ataduqqû. (13) [...], Ishur mā[da] (Rest destroyed or too broken for translataion)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x UD]—AN—dEN.LÍL / [x x] BE—iz-bu / [x] ⸢gur⸣-rum ma-ḫi-rum / [x BE]—⸢UDU⸣.NÍTA—PI.2—kur-ri / [x BE—UDU].NÍTA—im-ba-a—il-si / [x x] ⸢mu⸣-kal-lim-tú / [x] ⸢NAM⸣.BÚR.BI iz-bi / [x x x] BE—iz-bu / [01-me]-12 01 LÁ 1 URU—ina—SUKUD-e—GAR / [x]+37 ÉŠ.QAR ALAM.DÍM-mu-u / [o] a-di BAR-MEŠ NÍG.DÍM.DÍM-mu-u / [x] ⸢KA⸣.TA.DUG₄.GA-u / [x] ⸢is⸣-ḫur—ma-[a-da] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ ri [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 P336222.
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/P336222/..
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/P336222/.
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