Position in chronology
SAA 11 076. List of Flocks (ADD 1132)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) [x] lambs, (2) [x+]114 ewes, (3) [x+]8 1-year-old male sheep, (4) [x+]73 1-year-old ewes: (5) Total 401 white (sheep). (6) [x]+20 male goats, 100 female goats, (7) [x+]27 1-year-old (male) kids, (8) [x] 1-year-old female kids: (9) [Total] 227 black (goats). (10) [Total] 628 — Dur-makî-Issar. (11) [x] lambs, (12) [x+]120 ewes, (r 1) [x+]4 1-year-old (male) sheep, (r 2) [x+]3 1-year-old ewes: (r 3) Total 196 white (sheep). (r 4) [x] male goats, 30 female goats, (r 5) [x] 1-year-old ditto (= kids), 20 1-year-old female kids: (r 6) [To]tal [14]2 black (goats). (r 7) [Total 3]38 — Ninuayu. (r…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x (x)] UDU.SILA₄-MEŠ / [x]-me-14 UDU.U₈-MEŠ / [x]+8 UDU.DUMU—MU.AN.NA / [x]+73 UDU.DUMU.MÍ—MU.AN.NA / PAB 04-me-01 BABBAR-MEŠ / [x]+20 UDU.MÁŠ-MEŠ 01-me UDU.ÙZ-MEŠ / [x]+27 UDU.DUMU—MU.AN.NA / [x] UDU.MÍ.ÁŠ.⸢GÀR-MEŠ⸣ / [PAB] 02*-me-27* GI₆-MEŠ / [PAB] 06-me-28 mBÀD—ma-ki-i—d15 / [x x] UDU.SILA₄-MEŠ / [x]-⸢me*⸣-20 UDU.U₈-MEŠ / [x]+4 UDU.DUMU—MU.AN.NA / [x]+3 ⸢UDU*.DUMU*⸣.MÍ—MU.AN.NA / ⸢PAB⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335927.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 11), 1995. 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/P335927/..
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/P335927/.
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