Position in chronology
SAA 07 201. Aššur Temple Offerings (ADD 1030)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [A thigh, a shoulder]; (2) [x ou]ter cuts, 2 cu[ts] of shoulder. (3) Of 1 (ox): the stomach, liver, kidneys, and heart: 1 sheep of the temple. (5) 3 heads (and) the breasts of 4 roast sheep. (7) 1 goose, 1 duck, 10 turtledoves. (8) A tureen of bouillon; (9) a tureen of soup. (10) 1 seah 1 'litre' of regular offering loaves; (11) 1 seah 1 'litre' of [spic]ed bread; (12) a 2-seah jar of hammur[tu]-beer; (r 1) a flag[on] of bittersweet beer; (r 3) a flagon of beer of bruis[ed grain]. (r 4) The leftovers from before Aššur. (r 5) 1 sheep, 7 (cuts of) meat. (r 6) 7 big loaves; (r 7) 3 'litres' of regular offering loaves; (r 8) 2 'litres' of spiced bread; (r 9) 2 'litres' of midru-bread. (r 10) New regular offerings, (r 11) [the xth da]y, care of Nabû-šarru-uṣur.
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/P335850/
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Transliteration
[UZU.ÚR UZU.ZAG] / [UZU.DIŠ]-ḫa-ni 02 nís-[ḫi] ZAG-[MEŠ] / ša 01 GUD kar-šú UR₅.ÚŠ-[MEŠ] / BIR-MEŠ ŠÀ o* 01 UDU šá É—DINGIR / 03 SAG.DU GABA-MEŠ / ša 04 UDU.šu-bé-e / 01 KUR.GI 01 MUŠEN 10 TU.GUR₄ / DUG.ma-zi-u šá* A-MEŠ—UZU / DUG.ma-zi-u šá* a-ku-si / 1(bán) 01 qa NINDA-MEŠ gi-né-[e] / 1(bán) 01 qa NINDA.qa-[du-tú] / DUG.2(bán) ḫa-mur-[ti] / DUG.ma-si-[tú] / KAŠ.la-pa-ni [o] / DUG.ma-si-tú KAŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335850.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335850). 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/P335850/.
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