Position in chronology
SAA 07 112. Memorandum re Clothing (ADD 0680)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (1) which to [......] (2) Nabû-naṣ[ir ...]; (3) N[N] will provide 400 cloaks; (4) Nabû-š[ezibanni], the official of [...], gave upper garments (and) robes; he (and) his wife prepared banquets. (10) Gowns of linen, 1 urnutu-garment covering the (entire) figure — Šamaš-iddin is the recipient. (r 1) Udini will provide 1,500 wraps of the Gurraeans. (r 4) Nabû-šezibanni will provide 70 third-rate shawls. (r 6) The adjutants whose background is known (Break) (e. 1) Total: 11 men, who ran away wi[th NN], the commander-of-fifty, [and came] to m[e].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ša a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / mdPA—PAB-⸢ir⸣ [x x (x x)] / 04-me ku-zip-pu m⸢d⸣[x x (x)] / e-dan mdPA—⸢še?⸣-[zib-(an-ni)] / EN—pi-qi-ti ša ⸢sa⸣-[x (x)] ⸢x x x⸣ / TÚG.AN.TA-MEŠ TÚG.BAR.⸢DIB-MEŠ⸣ / it-ti-din šu-ú MÍ-šú / qa-ri-i-a-ti / e-ta-ap-še / TÚG.ma-qa-aṭ-a-ti ša TÚG.GADA / 01 TÚG.ur-nat ša UGU la*-ni / mdUTU—AŠ EN ma-ḫa-ru / 01-lim-05*-me TÚG.na-ḫa-pa-a-te / ša KUR?.qu*-ra?-a.a / mú-di-ni e-dan /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335562.
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/P335562/..
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/P335562/.
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