Position in chronology
SAA 11 026. Record of Merchants’ Transactions (ADD 0812)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [x] talents (of iron) [purchased] from Atam[ar-... ...], for 5 minas of silver, inside the city [of ....]. (3) 4 talents purchased from an ironsmith of the city of Assur — he says: "I don't know his name" — for 1 mina of silver, inside the city of Harran. (6) Total: 75 talents of iron [purc]hased for 18 minas [of silver]. (7) 301 dyed skins purchased from [NN ...] of the city of Assur for 10 2/3 minas of sil[ver, in]side the city of Calah. He (the seller) exported them through the city-gate himself. (10) 3 dyed skins purchased within the city-gate of the city of…
Source: Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335657/
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Transliteration
[x] GÚ.UN ina ŠU.2 m⸢IGI*.LAL?⸣—[x x x x x x] / [ina] ŠÀ 05 MA.NA KUG.UD ina qa-ab-si URU.[x x la-qi] / 04* GÚ.UN ina ŠU.2 LÚ.SIMUG—AN.BAR URU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a / ma-a MU-šú la ú-da ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA (erasure) ⸢KUG?.UD?⸣ / ina qa-ab-si URU.KASKAL la-qi / PAB 75 GÚ.UN AN.BAR ina ŠÀ ⸢18* MA⸣.NA [KUG.UD la]-qi / 03-me-01 KUŠ.DUḪ.ŠI.A ina ŠU.2 m[x x] ⸢x x x⸣ / URU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a ina ŠÀ 10 2::3 MA.NA ⸢KUG⸣.[UD…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335657.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335657). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335657/.
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