Position in chronology
SAA 07 107. List of Textiles (ADD 0975)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] the front (and) the rear part; (3) [...] 1 1/3 mina; (4) [...] ditto, ditto, the front ditto, 1 1/3 mina; (5) [...], ditto, the front ditto, 1 1/4 mina; (6) [...] ditto, ditto, the front (red), of the port, not, 1 1/3 mina; (7) [...] ditto, ditto, the front ditto, 1 1/4 mina; (8) [...] ditto, ditto, the front red, of limestone; (9) [...], ditto, the front red, of the country; (10) [......] front bl[ack ...]; (Break) (r 2) [...] 77 urnutu-garments [...]; (r 3) [...] house-wrap(s) for women; (r 4) [...]..., felted, ditto, ditto; (r 5) [...]..., ditto, the front…
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/P335803/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x (x x) x]+⸢x⸣ ZAG KUN-⸢tú*⸣ / [x x x (x x) x]+⸢x⸣ 01 MA 03-si / [x x x x (x x)] :. :. ZAG :. 01 MA 03-si [o] / [x x x (x x)] :. ZAG :. 01 MA 04-tú [o] / [x x x (x x)] :. :. ZAG KAR NU 01 MA 03-⸢si⸣ / [x x (x x) x]+⸢x⸣ :. :. ZAG :. 01 MA 04-tú / [x x x (x x)] :. :. ZAG SA₅ pu-li / [x x x x (x x)] :. ZAG SA₅ KUR / [x x x x (x x)] ⸢ZAG* GI₆*⸣ [x (x 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 P335803.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335803). 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/P335803/.
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