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SAA 11 069. Accompanying Deportees (ADD 0765)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [x] deportees from the town of Papama, which the magnates bro[ught in]. (2) [Month of ...], 14th [day], eponym year of Aššur-bani (713 B.C.).
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/P335627/
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Transliteration
[x x] ERIM ZI URU.pa-pa-ma*-a.a ša LÚv.GAL-MEŠ na-⸢ṣu*⸣-[ni] / [ITI.x UD] 14-KAM lim-mu maš-šur—ba-ni
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335627.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335627). 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/P335627/.
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