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SAA 07 086. Record of Precious Stone Items
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 1 big agate eye-stone; (2) 10 second(-size); (3) [1]11 agate eye-stones; (4) 10(+) serpentine eye-stones; (5) 8(+) carnelian stones; (6) [...] will cut off the bindings. (7) [...] of antimony; (8) [...] big star. (10) [1 ...] of agate; (11) [x ...]s of agate, small; (12) [x ...]s of serpentine, small; (Break) (r 4) [......] carnelian; (r 5) [......] antimony; (r 6) [......] second(-size); (r 7) [......] (r 8) [......] Kenî. (r 9) [......], 1 lion's head (rhyton), (r 10) [......].
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/P336639/
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Transliteration
⸢01⸣ IGI.2 NA₄.BABBAR.DIL KALAG-tú / ⸢10⸣ 02-a-ti / [x]-⸢me⸣-11 IGI.2-MEŠ NA₄.BABBAR.DIL / [x]+10 IGI.2-MEŠ NA₄.MUŠ.GÍR / [x]+08 NA₄-MEŠ ša NA₄.GUG / ⸢x x⸣ [x] rik-sa-ni ú-bat-tu-qu / [x x x x].AN ŠEM.BI.ZI.[DA] / [x x x x] MUL-te KALAG-tú / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-tú ša NA₄.BABBAR.DIL / [x x x x] ⸢NA₄⸣.BABBAR.DIL QÀL-MEŠ / [x x x x x] ⸢MUŠ.GÍR QÀL-MEŠ⸣ / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u / [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 P336639.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336639). 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/P336639/.
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