Position in chronology
SAA 07 079. Record of Gold Items, Reign of Sargon (ADD 0676)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(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…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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: 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/P335558/..
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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