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SAA 07 161. Record of Food Offerings from Officials (ADD 0960+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) 8 trays of cakes; (i 2) 12 trays of thick bread loaves; (i 3) 10 baskets of leeks; (i 4) 10 baskets of garlic; (i 5) [10] baskets of shallots; (i 6) [x] sheep; (i 7) [x cans of] beer; (Break) (i 11) [total] of the administrative di[strict] of Dur-Issar. (i 12) 2 trays of cakes; (i 13) 3 trays of thick bread loaves; (i 14) 3 baskets of leeks; (i 15) 3 baskets of garlic; (i 16) 3 baskets of shallots; (i 17) 5 sheep; (i 18) 5 cans of beer; (i 19) 2 homers of roasted grain. (i 20) Total of the administrative district of Balaṭ. (ii 1) 2 trays of cakes; (ii 2) 3 trays of thick bread loaves;…
Source: 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/P335790/
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Transliteration
08 GIŠ.NÁ ga-ri-ṣa-te / 12 GIŠ.NÁ ib-bi-a-te / 10 sa-li KUR*-i-sa-a-te / 10 sa-li Ú.SUM.SAR / [10] sa-li Ú.SUM.SIKIL / [x] UDU-MEŠ / ⸢x⸣+[x DUG.ku-ta-te] KAŠ / [PAB*] ⸢ša NAM⸣ URU.BÀD—15 / 02 GIŠ.NÁ ga-ri-ṣa-te / 03 GIŠ.NÁ ib-bi-a-te / 03 sa-li KUR-i-sa-a-te / 03 sa-li Ú.SUM.SAR / 03 sa-li Ú.SUM.⸢SIKIL⸣ / 05 UDU-MEŠ / 05 DUG.ku-ta-te KAŠ / 02 ANŠE ŠE.SA.A / PAB ša NAM URU.ba-laṭ / 02 GIŠ.NÁ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335790.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335790). source
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/P335790/.
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