Position in chronology
SAA 11 167. Deportees from Cilicia (ADD 1099)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) 334 able-bodied men; (2) 38 children of 5 spans' height; (3) 41 children of 4 spans' height; (4) 40 children of 3 spans' height; (5) 28 children, weaned; (6) 25 children, sucklings. (7) Total 172 boys. (8) 349 women; (9) 8 females, of 5 spans' height; (10) 22 females, of 4 spans' height; (11) 49 females, of 3 spans' height; (12) 17 females, weaned; (r 1) 25 females, sucklings. (r 2) Total 121 girls. (r 3) Grand total 977 people, deportees, from Que.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
03-me-34 ERIM-MEŠ ⸢KALAG?⸣-[MEŠ] / 38 DUMU-MEŠ 05 ru-ṭi / 41 DUMU-MEŠ 04 ru-ṭi / 40 DUMU 03 ru-ṭi / 28 DUMU pir-si / 25 DUMU ša GA / PAB 01-me-72 LÚ.TUR-MEŠ / 03-me-49 MÍ-MEŠ / 08 MÍ 05 ru-ṭi / 22 MÍ 04 ru-ṭi / 49 MÍ 03 ru-ṭi / 17 MÍ pir-si / 25 MÍ ša GA / PAB 01-me-21 DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ / PAB-ma 09-me-77 / ERIM-MEŠ ZI-MEŠ KUR.qu-u-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335907.
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/P335907/..
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/P335907/.
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