Position in chronology
SAA 07 130. Various Foods from Officials to the Lady of the House (ADD 1104)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) [1] basket of truffles [...] — of the governor of Barhalzi; (3) 1 male sheep — of Bel-naṣir, the governor of Calah. (5) [1] male sheep — of Nabû-kuṣuranni, the governor of Arzuhina; (7) [1 tarm]azilu bird — [of ...]-eriba, eunuch of the king; (9) [...] vessel of wine, (10) [1 ušamu]tu-bird, (11) [1 spray of] pomegranates (Break) (r 1) [...], mayor; (r 2) [1] male sheep, 1 lamb — of Nabû-deni-epuš, the chief shepherd; (r 5) 1 lamb, 20 collared birds, (r 6) 1 spray of pomegranates — of Milki-nuri. (r 8) To the Lady of the House.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[01] sa-lu pu-ṭu-ri [x x x] / ša ⸢LÚ*⸣.NAM* KUR*.⸢bar-ḫa?-zi⸣ / 01 UDU.NÍTA ša mEN—PAB-ir / LÚ.NAM URU.kàl-ḫa / [01] UDU.NÍTA ša mdPA—ku-ṣur-a-ni / ⸢LÚ⸣.NAM URU.ár-zu-ḫi-na / [01 tar]-⸢ma⸣-zi-li.MUŠEN / [ša mdx]—SU LÚv.SAG—MAN / [x x x x] DUG.kan-du* GIŠ.GEŠTIN / [x ú-šá-mu]-te.MUŠEN / [01 tú-ga-nu-ú] ⸢NU*.ÚR*.MA*-MEŠ*⸣ / [x x x x] ⸢LÚ*⸣.ḫa-za*-⸢ni*⸣ [o] / [01] ⸢UDU⸣.NÍTA 01 UDU.NIM / ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335911.
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/P335911/..
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/P335911/.
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