Position in chronology
SAA 07 181. Animal Offerings from the Palace (ADD 1014)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 1 ox, 10 sheep, 1 duck — gate of the big shrine; (2) 1 ox, 10 sheep, 1 duck — gate of the small shrine; (3) 2 oxen, 1 sisalhu ox, 30 sheep, 2 ducks — before Ištar (of) the temple; (4) in all 4 oxen, 1 sisalhu ox, 50 sheep, 4 ducks, offerings of the month of Ab (V), 11th day. (6) Meat (of) oxen, sheep — obligatory: (7) 1 (cut of) meat, 1 sheep — the queen; (r 1) 1 (cut of) meat, 1 sheep — the crown prince; (r 2) 1 (cut of) meat, 1 sheep — the chief eunuch; (r 3) in all, 3 (cuts of) meat, 3 sheep, consumed. (r 4) 4 oxen, 4 (cuts of) meat, 44 sheep, 4 ducks — [obliga]tion of the palace.
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/P335835/
Why it matters
Transliteration
01 GUD 10 UDU 01 MUŠEN—GAL KÁ suk-ki dan-nu / 01 GUD 10 UDU 01 MUŠEN—GAL KÁ suk-ki qàl-li / 02 GUD 01 si-sal-ḫu 30 UDU 02 MUŠEN—GAL IGI d15 É—DINGIR / PAB 04 GUD 01 si-sal-ḫu 50 UDU-MEŠ 04 MUŠEN—GAL / SISKUR-MEŠ ITI.NE UD 11-KÁM / UZU GUD-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ ri-ik-su / 01 UZU 01 UDU MÍ—É.GAL / 01 UZU 01 UDU DUMU—LUGAL / 01 UZU 01 UDU GAL—SAG / PAB 03 UZU 03 UDU KÚ-MEŠ / 04 GUD 04* UZU 44 UDU-MEŠ 04 MUŠEN—GAL / [ri-ik?]-⸢su⸣ É.GAL
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335835.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335835). 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/P335835/.
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