Position in chronology
SAA 11 170. Deportees from Various Regions (ADD 0895)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 30, (from) the town ...[...] (2) 4 ...[...] (3) 11 people, dep[ortees ...]: (4) in all, 15 [...]. (5) In all, 6 w[omen] (6) (Grand) total, 21 people de[portees...], (7) (in the charge) of Ik...[...], (8) on the orders of the [...]-official. (9) Hasuata [...], (10) [(from)] the town Abnan[a, ...] (11) 1 palace servant, 6 of [...]: (12) in all, 7 (in the charge) of Adad-[...], (13) [from] the city Carchemi[sh ...] (14) [(and) of] Susu'a, [...] (15) [of the city Kul]lan[ia] (16) [......] (r 1) 6 Urarti[ans]. (r 2) In all, two [...] (r 3) 72, of [...]: (r 4) in all, 74 pe[ople, deportees] (r 5) 1 boy, 1 [...] (r 6) in all, 2 bo[ys ...]: (r 7) in all, 76 pe[ople ...] (r 8) 7 women, [1 girl], (r 9) in all 8 women. (r 10) (Grand) total, 84 people, depo[rtees].
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/P335735/
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Transliteration
⸢30*⸣ URU.KUR-[x x x x] / ⸢04* da*⸣-[x x x x] / 11 ⸢ERIM ZI*⸣-[MEŠ x x] / ⸢PAB 15?⸣ [x x x x] / PAB 06? ⸢MÍ⸣-[MEŠ] / PAB 21 ERIM ZI-[MEŠ x x] / ⸢ša* mik-x x⸣ [x x x] / ⸢a*⸣-[na] ⸢UGU*⸣ pi-i LÚv*.[x x x] / [m]ḫa-su-a-⸢ta⸣ [x x] / [x] URU.ab-na-⸢na?⸣ [x x x] / ⸢01?⸣ ARAD—KUR 06 ša ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ⸢PAB*⸣ 07 ša* m10*—[x x (x x)] / [x]+⸢x⸣ URU.gar-ga-⸢mis⸣ [x x (x x)] / [ša?] msu-su-u-a ⸢LÚv⸣.[x (x x)] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335735.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335735). 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/P335735/.
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