Position in chronology
SAA 07 136. Various Foods from(?) Officials (ADD 0942)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (ii 1) [1 sisalhu ox], 5 male sheep, 5 jars of ..., 2 wooden boxes with quinces, 3 boxes with figs, 1 box with prunes, 2 pots of dates; 14 trays of fruit — the governor of Qarnina. (ii 5) 1 sisalhu ox, 2 male sheep, 4 jars — Urzuhina. (ii 7) 1 sisalhu ox, 2 male sheep — Mazamua. (ii 8) [1] sisalhu ox, 2 male sheep — Si'immê. (ii 9) [1] sisalhu ox [......] (Break) (r i 1) the governor of [......]. (r i 2) [1] sisalhu [ox], 2 male sheep — N[N], the governor of Carchemish. (r i 4) [1] sisalhu ox, 3 male sheep — Ahu-immê, the governor of Hindana. (r i 6) [1] sisalhu [ox] —…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[01 GUD si-sal-ḫu] ⸢05⸣ UDU.NÍTA 05 ⸢DUG*.ŠAB* x x x⸣ / ⸢02⸣ GIŠ*.kak*-kul* ⸢ḪAŠḪUR*⸣.KUR.RA 03 kak-kul GIŠ.MA-MEŠ / 01* GIŠ.kak-kul GIŠ.KIB 02 qa-bir ZÚ.LUM.MA / ⸢14?⸣ GIŠ*.NÁ-MEŠ za-mar EN.NAM URU.qar-ni-na / 01? GUD si-sal-ḫu 02 UDU.NÍTA 04 DUG.ŠAB / URU.ur-zu-ḫi-na / 01* GUD si-sal-ḫu 02 UDU.NÍTA URU.KUR—za-mu-u / [01?] GUD si-sal-ḫu 02 UDU.NÍTA URU.si-ʾi-me-e / [01?] ⸢GUD* si*-sal*⸣-[ḫu x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335774.
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/P335774/..
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/P335774/.
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