Position in chronology
SAA 11 098. List of Prices of Donkeys (ADD 0732)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) 1 male donkey ..., in exchange for 1 1/2 minas 7 shekels. (3) 1 female donkey in exchange for 37 shekels. (4) A second female donkey in exchange for 1 mina. (5) A third female donkey in exchange for 1 royal mina. (6) A fourth female donkey in exchange for 32 shekels. (r 1) Total 5 1/2 minas 2 shekels.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
01* ANŠE.NÍTA UŠ / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 1::2 MA.NA 07 GÍN / 01 MÍ.ANŠE ina ŠÀ 37 GÍN / 02-tu MÍ.ANŠE ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA / 03-su MÍ.ANŠE ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA ša LUGAL / 04-tu MÍ.ANŠE ina ŠÀ 32 GÍN / PAB 05 1::2 MA.NA 02 GÍN
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335603.
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/P335603/..
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/P335603/.
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