Position in chronology
SAA 07 172. Record of Various Items from(?) Officials (ADD 1020)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) 1 male sheep, 2 storage-vessels of habbur-(wine); (2) 1 wooden box of pomegranates; (3) 1 ditto of grapes; (4) 5 gray partridges, of Mannu-k[i-Aššur], the treasurer. (6) 1 male sheep o[f NN], the governor of [Mazam]ua. (8) 1 spring lamb [...], 1 spring lamb ..., of Sin-[...]-šarri [...]. (10) 2 horses of N[N], the governor of [...]. (Break) (r 1) 1 gazelle [of NN], the governor of [...] (r 3) 10 jars of [...] beer, (r 4) 1 j[ar ......], (r 5) 1 ... [...], (r 6) 4 ...-clothes [...], of ...-ayu [...]. (r 8) 1 ...-garment [...], (r 9) 2 ...-garments of Ešrayu, weaver. (r 11) 3 tarmazilu-birds; (r 12) 1 ušametu-bird; (r 13) 1 kupītu-bird of Balṭaka-ammuri.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
01 UDU.NÍTA 02 DUG.ú-de-e ḫab-bur / 01 GIŠ.kak-kul-lu NU.ÚR.MEŠ / 01 :. GIŠ*.KIN*.GEŠTIN-MEŠ / 05 kak-ka-⸢ba*-nat?⸣.MUŠEN / ša mman-nu—⸢ki⸣—[aš-šur] LÚ.IGI.DUB / 01 UDU.NÍTA ⸢ša⸣ [mx]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ [o] / LÚ.NAM KUR—[za]-⸢mu⸣-a / 01 UDU.⸢NIM? x⸣+[x (x)] UDU.NIM UZ?-a.a / ša m30—[x-x]—LUGAL? ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ⸢02?⸣ KUR-MEŠ ša md⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / LÚv.EN.NAM KUR.[x x x x] / 01 MAŠ.DÀ* [x x x x x] / LÚv.NAM…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335841.
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/P335841/..
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/P335841/.
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