Position in chronology
SAA 07 079. Record of Gold Items, Reign of Sargon (ADD 0676)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The gol]d, from the [...] of the ornaments of the gods, which Aššur-bani, the governor of Calah, brought down. (5) Month of Iyyar (II), 15th day, eponym year of Inurta-alik-pani (711 B.C.). (6) 47 minas of gold, from the (statues of the) beasts; (7) 17 minas of refined (gold), one of them [......]; (8) 30 minas of second quality ...[...]; (9) 26 1/2 minas in [...]. (10) In all 63 1/2 minas [...]; (11) [...] mina(s) (Break) (r 1) ......; [...] has weighed out [...]. Month of Ab (V), 12th day [...]. (r 4) In all, 1 talent of the heavy sort [...], which the governor of Calah (and) the chief…
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/P335558/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[KUG].⸢GI⸣-MEŠ ša TAv ⸢UGU⸣ [x x (x x)] ⸢x⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ šu-kut-te ša ⸢MUL*⸣-MEŠ / ša maš-šur—ba-ni LÚv.EN.NAM URU.kàl-ḫa / ú-še-rid-da-ni ITI.GUD UD 15-KÁM / lim-mu mdMAŠ—DU—IGI / 47* MA.NA KUG.GI TAv UGU ú-ma-⸢ma*⸣-ni / 17* MA.NA sak-ru 01 ina ⸢ŠÀ?⸣-[bi (x x)] / 30 MA.NA 02-ú i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / 26 1::2 MA ina sa ⸢te?⸣ [x x (x x)] / PAB ⸢63*⸣ 1::2 MA.NA [x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢MA.NA⸣ [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 P335558.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335558). 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/P335558/.
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