Position in chronology
SAA 07 191. Aššur Temple Offerings, Day 10 (ADD 1012)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) 2 shoulde[rs of 1] ox. (2) 5 whole sheep; (3) 1 sheep of the temple. (4) A tureen of bouillon; (5) a tureen of soup; (6) 7 big loaves; (7) 1 seah 1 'litre' of re[gular] offering loaves; (8) 1 seah 1 'litre' of spic[ed] loaves. (9) A 2-seah jar of [hammurtu]-beer; (10) a flago[n of bittersweet beer]; (Break) (r 1) which Bel-ahhe-eriba made. (r 3) 1 sheep, 7 (cuts of) meat, (r 4) 3 'litres' of regular offering loaves; (r 5) 2 'litres' of spiced bread; (r 6) 2 'litres' of midru-bread. (r 7) The new regular offerings. (r 8) The leftovers from before Aššur. (r 9) The 10th day. Care of Turî.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
02 ZAG [(x x)] GUD / 05 UDU šal-mu-u-te / 01* UDU šá É—DINGIR / DUG.ma-zi-u A-MEŠ—UZU / DUG.ma-zi-u 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) ⸢KAŠ⸣.[ḫa-mur-ti] / DUG.ma-si-[tú la-pa-ni] / ša mEN—PAB-MEŠ—SU* / e-ba-šu-u-ni / 01 UDU 07 UZU* / 03 qa NINDA-MEŠ gi-né-e / 02 qa NINDA.qa-du-tú / 02 qa NINDA.me*-di-ri / gi-nu-ú GIBIL / re-ḫa-ti ša IGI aš-šur / UD 10-KÁM ŠU.2 mtu-ri-i
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335833.
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/P335833/..
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/P335833/.
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