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SAA 07 089. Record of Work on Copper Items (ADD 1051+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Wooden q[ui]vers; (2) a case for [...]s of iron; (3) ...s of copper; (4) 14 handles of copper; (5) loops of copper; (6) the top part of inside arms, of copper; (8) the top part of the draught-poles of ... leather, with 5 star-shaped objects. (11) A case for spears, of iron; (12) coverings of leather, including their precious stones, firmly fixed. (15) The front of the base-board, nailed. (r 1) 2 containers of copper, speckled; (r 3) 2 not ditto; (r 4) all this — completed work. (r 6) Copper ...s, to be polished; (r 8) a copper armour, l[igh]t, to be polished; (r 10) 6 furniture feet of ..., to be polished; (r 13) 6 star-shaped objects, to be hammered; (r.e. 15) lumps of copper, to be polished.
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/P335867/
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Transliteration
GIŠ.⸢iš⸣-[pa]-a-te / É—[x-(x)]-MEŠ AN.BAR / kan ⸢x x⸣ URUDU / 14 ri-ta-a-te URUDU / kip-pa-a*-te URUDU / SAG.DU Á.2*-MEŠ / É-a-ni-a-te URUDU / SAG.DU ma-šad-da-a-te / KUŠ.⸢x⸣-zu / a-di 05 kak-ka-pa-a-te* / É ku-ta-ḫu AN.BAR / KUŠ.tap-ši-e-MEŠ* / a-di NA₄-MEŠ-šú-nu / šar-šu-du / SAG.KI GIŠ*.KI.KAL / ra-pi-qi / 02 kur-kur-ru* URUDU / bar-ru-mu / 02 la KI.MIN / PAB an-ni-e / dul-lu ga-mar! /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335867.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335867). 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/P335867/.
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