Position in chronology
SAA 07 097. Textile Label (ADD 0956)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (1) 4 [...]-garments [......]; (2) 2 ...[...]-garments [...]; (3) 3 ur[nutu]-garments [...]; (4) 2 reinforced lower garments, fe[lt]ed, [...]; (5) 3 reinforced lower garments ditto [...]; (6) 3 straight garments, ditto, [...]; (7) 3 overcoats, the front red [...]; (8) 1 [bedspread of ...]; (9) 6 blankets for a bed [...]; (10) 5 urnutu-garments, felted, the front red, of the port [...]; (11) 4 straight garments, ditto, the edging ditto; (12) 5 urnutu-garments, ditto, ditto, ditto, ...; (13) 1 cloak studded with stones; (r 1) 4 gowns of linen, the front red, of the port,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢04⸣ TÚG.[x x x x x x] / 02* TÚG*.⸢SI*⸣.[LUḪ x x x x] / 03 TÚG.ur-[nat x x x x x] / 02* TÚG.KI—ḫal-pat ⸢bir-še?⸣ [x x] / 03 TÚG.KI—ḫal-pat :. [x x] / 03 TÚG.na-ṣa-bat :. [x x x] / 03 TÚG.qir-me* ZAG SA₅ [x x] / 01 TÚG.[qar]-PA si? ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 06 TÚG.dáp-pa-sat GIŠ.⸢NÁ⸣ [x x] / 05* TÚG.ur-nat bir-še ZAG SA₅ KAR [x (x)] / 04 TÚG.na-ṣa-bat :. NÍGIN :. [o] / 05* TÚG.ur-nat :. :. :. sa-a ⸢x⸣+[x] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335786.
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/P335786/..
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/P335786/.
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