Position in chronology
SAA 07 189. Aššur Temple Offerings, Day 4 (ADD 1005)
Translation · reference
High confidence(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…
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/P335826/
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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: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335826). 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/P335826/.
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