Position in chronology
SAA 07 073. Precious Gifts to(?) Officials (ADD 0931)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 1 hand-ring of gold, 1 mina less 4 shekels; 1 arm-ring of gold, 1/3 mina less 1/3 shekel, a necklace, 3 shekels: Šumma-ili, cohort commander. (6) 1 arm-ring of gold, 15 1/3 shekels; 1 hand-ring, 32 1/3 shekels: Ahu-duri, son of [NN] (9) [1] hand-ring of g[old], 30 1/2 [she]kels in we[ight]; 1 [a]rm-r[ing of gold], [x] 3/4 (shekels): [Aš]šur-bani. (14) [1] hand-ring of gold, [x+]2 1/4 shekels [in weight]; [1] arm-ring, [x] 1/3 shekels: Sin-šarru-uṣur. (r 2) [1] hand-ring of go[ld], 31 shekels le[ss] half a shekel; 1 arm-ring, 1/3 (mina) [less a] she[kel]: Ubru-Adad. (r 7) 1 hand-ring, 1/2…
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/P335765/
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Transliteration
01-te ḪAR rit-te KUG.GI / 01 MA 04 GÍN LÁ! / 01 ḪAR du-ra-ʾi KUG.GI / 03-su MA* 03-su* GÍN LÁ ku-ri-nat* 03 GÍN / mšum-ma—DINGIR GAL—ki-ṣir / 01 ḪAR du-ra-ʾi KUG.GI / 15 03-⸢su*⸣ GÍN 01 ḪAR rit-te / ⸢32⸣ 1::3? ⸢GÍN*⸣ mPAB—BÀD A* m⸢x⸣ [x x] / [01]-te ⸢ḪAR⸣ rit-te ⸢KUG⸣.[GI] / 30 1::⸢2 GÍN*⸣ KI.[LAL] / 01-te ⸢ḪAR du⸣-ra-ʾi [KUG.GI] / ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢03*⸣ 04*-⸢MEŠ⸣ <[x]> / [o maš]-šur—ba-⸢ni⸣ / [01-te] ḪAR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335765.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335765). 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/P335765/.
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