Position in chronology
SAA 07 110. Record of Red and Black Wool (ADD 0954)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) 2 minas of red wo[ol]; (2) 2 minas of bl[ack] wool; (3) total, for the ...[...]-garment(s). (4) 1 1/2 minas of r[ed] wool; (5) 1 1/2 minas of [black] wool; (6) total, for the bed[spr]ead(s); (7) 2 1/2 minas of red wool; (8) 2 1/2 minas of black wool, (9) for the overcoat(s); (10) 20 minas of red wool, (11) 20 minas of [black wool], (12) for one [...]; (13) [...]...[...] (r 1) In all, 26 minas of red wool, 26 minas of black. (r 3) In all, 1 talent, 22 minas.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
02 MA.NA SÍG.ḪÉ.[MED] / 02 MA.NA SÍG.⸢GI₆⸣ [o] / PAB a-na TÚG.SI.⸢x⸣+[x (x)] / 1 1::2 MA.NA SÍG.⸢ḪÉ*⸣.[MED] / 1 1::2 MA.NA SÍG.[GI₆ o] / PAB a-na TÚG.qar-⸢PA?⸣ / 2 1::2 MA.NA SÍG.ḪÉ.MED* [o] / 2 1::2 MA.NA SÍG.GI₆ [o] / a-na TÚG.qir-mu [o*] / 20 MA SÍG.ḪÉ.MED* / 20 MA.NA [SÍG.GI₆ o] / a-na 01 [x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] / PAB 26 MA ḪÉ.[MED] / 26 MA GI₆ o* / PAB 01 GÚ 22 MA.NA [o]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335784.
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/P335784/..
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/P335784/.
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