Position in chronology
SAA 07 144. Similar to No. 143 (Iraq 32 28)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) 1 seah 2 ['litres', the xth day]; (i 2) 1 seah 3 'li[tres', the xth day]; (i 3) 2 seahs 2 'litres', the 26th day; (i 4) 2 seahs, month of Sivan (III), the 2nd day; (i 5) 2 seahs, the 3rd day, 6 1/2 'litres'; (i 6) month of Tammuz (IV), the 5th day; (i 7) 1 seah, 3 'litres', the 9th day; (i 8) 4 seahs 5 'litres', the 10th day; (i 9) [x] seah 3 'litres', the 23rd day; (i 10) [x seah] 4 'litres', the 24th day; (i 11) [x seah x] 'litre', the 26th day; (i 12) [x seah (x 'litre')], the 29th [day]; (Break) (r i 1) 3 [seahs, ...], (r i 2) 4 seahs 9 ['litres', the xth day; ...], (r i 3) month of Sivan (III), [the xth day], (r i 4) 4 seahs 8 'litres', [the xth day]; (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢1(bán) 020⸣+[x qa UD x-KÁM] / 1(bán) 03 ⸢qa⸣ [UD x-KÁM] / 2(bán) 02 ⸢qa UD 26-KÁM⸣ / 2(bán) ITI.SIG₄ UD 02-KÁM / 2(bán) UD 03-KÁM 06 1::2 qa / ITI.ŠU UD 05-KÁM / 1(bán) 03 qa UD 09-KÁM / 4(bán) 05 qa UD 10-KÁM / [n(bán)] 03 qa UD ⸢23⸣-KÁM / [n(bán)] 04 qa UD 24-KÁM / [n(bán) x] ⸢qa⸣ UD 26-KÁM / [x x x x UD] ⸢29-KÁM⸣ / ⸢3(bán)⸣ [x x x x] / 4(bán) 09 [qa UD x-KÁM] / ITI.SIG₄ [x x x x] / 4(bán) 08 qa ⸢UD⸣ [x-KÁM] / [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 P336212.
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/P336212/..
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/P336212/.
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