Position in chronology
SAA 11 123. List of Chariot Troops (ADD 0852)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (i 2) Total 4 horse trainers of the zun(zurahu). (i 4) Total 8, in the charge of Ahu'a-lamur, of the city of Halzu. (i 6) Ubur-Issar, horse trainer; (i 7) Mušezib-ilu, ditto. (i 8) Ququa, horse trainer; (i 9) Šamaš-ahu-iddina. (i 10) Šamaš-šallim, horse trainer; (i 11) Silim-Adad, ditto. (Break) (ii 2) Zababa-iškun (ii 3) Zanduru (ii 4) Susanu (ii 5) Mannu-ki-Adad (ii 6) Metu-adur (ii 7) Aplu-uṣur (ii 8) Aššur-kallimanni (ii 9) Babilayu (ii 10) Gurrudu (ii 11) Issar-šumu-kinni (ii 12) Ṭab-ahhe (ii 13) Gidgidanu (ii 14) Mannu-ki-ahhe (ii 15) Šamaš-abu-uṣur (ii 16)…
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/P335694/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢ša?⸣ [x x x x] / PAB 04 LÚv.su-sa-ni / šá LÚv.zu*-un* / PAB 08 ša ŠU.2 mPAB-u-a—IGI / ša URU.ḫal-zi / mSUḪUŠ—15 LÚv.GIŠ.GIGIR / mmu-še-zib—DINGIR : / mqu-qu-u-a su / mdUTU—PAB—AŠ / [m]dUTU—šal-lim su / msi-lim—dIM ⸢:⸣ / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / mza-ba*-ba*—GAR / mza-an-du-ru / msu-sa-nu / mman-nu—ki—10 / mBE-tú—a-dúr / mDUMU.UŠ—PAB / maš-šur—kal-lim-an-ni / mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a / mgu-ru-du / md15—MU—GIN /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335694.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335694). 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/P335694/.
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