Position in chronology
SAA 07 189. Aššur Temple Offerings, Day 4 (ADD 1005)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) A thigh, a shoulder, outer cuts; 2 cuts of shoulders, of one ox of the temple of Dagan; (3) 2 thighs, 2 shoulders from the (oxen) of the pilgrims. Of 6 oxen: the stomachs, the liver(s), the kidney(s), the hearts. (5) 5 whole sheep; 1 sheep of the temple; (6) 1 fattened sheep. 1 goose, 1 duck, 10 turtledoves. (7) a tureen of bouillon; (8) a tureen of soup; (9) 7 big loaves; (10) 1 seah 1 'litre' of [regular offering] loaves; (11) 1 seah 1 'litre' of [spiced] loaves. (12) A 2-seah jar of hammurtu-beer; (13) a flagon of bitte[rsweet] beer; (14) a ditto of beer of [bruised] grain. (15) 2 bags…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ÚR ZAG DIŠ-ḫa-<ni> 02 nís-ḫi ZAG / TAv ŠÀ GUD.NÍTA ša É—AD / 02 ÚR 02 ZAG TAv ŠÀ šá—SISKUR*-MEŠ / ša 06 GUD kar-šá-ni UR₅.ÚŠ BIR ŠÀ-MEŠ / 05 UDU šal-mu-te 01 UDU šá É—DINGIR / 01 UDU tak-bar-ru 01 KUR*.GI* 01 MUŠEN—<GAL> 10 TU.GUR₄* / DUG.ma-zi-u ša A-MEŠ—UZU / DUG.ma-zi-u o a-ku-si / 07 ak-li ⸢dan⸣-[ni] / 1(bán) 01 qa NINDA-MEŠ [gi-né-e] / ⸢1(bán) 01 qa⸣ NINDA.[qa-du-tú] / ⸢DUG⸣.2(bán)…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335826.
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/P335826/..
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/P335826/.
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