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SAA 11 027. Note of Royal Accoutrements (ZA 73 02)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For 22 bows for the king's own use, the sinews for the bowstrings — Sasî. (4) For 12 bows for the king's own use — Bazazanu. (6) 15 minas (silver from) the house of the crown prince, for quivers (and) trappings. (9) [Thi]s is the later (consignment) [......].
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/P337167/
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Transliteration
ša 22 GIŠ.BAN-MEŠ ša ŠU.2 MAN / UZU.SA.SAL a-na mat-na-a-te / msa-si-i / ša 12 GIŠ.BAN-MEŠ ša ŠU.2 LUGAL / mba*-za-za-a-nu / 15 MA.NA É DUMU—MAN / a-na KUŠ.sa-al-ṭa-ni / a-na tal-lul-te / [an]-⸢ni?-u?⸣ EGIR-ú / [LÚ.x (x)] ⸢x ni⸣ [x (x)]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P337167.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P337167). 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/P337167/.
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