Position in chronology
SAA 11 154. Families from Babylon and Cutha (ADD 0891)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) Bel-iddin, architect, son of Bel-ahhešu; Remut-Gula, [his] son; Qunnabatu, Inqaya, Kullaya, Adirtu, Bittû — in all, 4 daughters of his. (10) Total, 7, family of the house of Arad-[Ne]rgal; (the house is) beside the temple of the god Nabû-ša-harê. (12) Kidin-Marduk, chief builder, son of Sapiku; the woman Bilassunu, his sister. In all, 2 in the Gate of Same. (16) Zerutu, cupbearer of the goddess Belet-Babili; the woman Maqartu, his sister. In all 2. (r 1) Bulluṭu, engraver, son of Aplaya. (r 3) In all, three families of the house of Nur-Sin, beside the king's silos. (r 5) The woman Gagayu, wife of Iddu'a, chief builder in the Gate of Same. (r 7) In all, 13 Babylonians. (r 8) Ahunu, son of Sapiku, scribe, from Cutha. (r 10) In all, 14 people.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
mEN—SUM-na LÚ.še-lap-pa-a.a [o] / A mEN—PAB-MEŠ-šú [o] / mrém-ut—dgu-la ⸢DUMU⸣-[šú] / MÍ.qu-na-ba-⸢tú⸣ / MÍ.in-qa-a.a [o] / MÍ.kul-la-a.a / MÍ.a-dir-tú / MÍ.bi-it-tu-u / PAB 04 DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ-šú / PAB 07 qi-in-nu É mARAD—⸢GIR₄*⸣.KUG / in-di É*—dPA ša mḫa-⸢ri⸣-e / mki-din—dmar-duk LÚ.GAL—DÙ / A msa-pi-⸢ki⸣ / MÍ.bé-lat-su-nu NIN-su / PAB 02 ina KÁ sa-a-me* / mNUMUN-u-tú LÚ.KAŠ.LUL ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335731.
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/P335731/..
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/P335731/.
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