Position in chronology
SAA 07 209. Aššur Temple Offerings, Day 22 (ADD 1010)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) A thigh, a shoulder, outer cuts, 2 cu[ts of shoulder] of an ox, of the temple of Dagan — [of the chief] cupbearer. (3) 2 thighs, 2 shoulders, from the (oxen of) the pilgrims. (4) Of 5 oxen: the stomachs, livers, kidney(s), hearts. (5) 5 whole sheep; 1 sheep of the temple; 1 fattened sheep; (6) 1 kimru-sheep; 1 sheep for ablution — of the chief cupbearer. (7) 12 platters of saplišhu. 1 goose, (8) 1 duck, 10 turtledoves. A tureen of bouillon; (9) a tureen of soup. 7 big loaves; (10) 1 seah 1 'litre' of regular offering loaves; 1 seah 1 qa of spiced (bread); (11) a 2-seah jar of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ÚR 01 ZAG DIŠ-ḫa-ni ⸢02 nís⸣-[ḫi ZAG-MEŠ] / ša GUD ša É—dda*-gan [ša GAL]—KAŠ.LUL / 02 ÚR 02 ZAG TAv* ŠÀ* SISKUR-MEŠ / ša 05 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 UDU kim-rum 01 UDU rím-ku ša* GAL—KAŠ*.LUL* / 12 DUG.síḫ-ḫa-rat sap-liš*-ḫi 01 KUR.GI.MUŠEN / 01 MUŠEN 10 TU.GUR₄ DUG.ma-zi-⸢u⸣ A-MEŠ—UZU / DUG.ma-zi-u a-ku-si 07 ⸢ak-li⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335831.
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/P335831/..
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/P335831/.
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