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SAA 11 173. Farmers and their Families (ADD 0783)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] his wife, one s[on of his], (3) a second son of his, [...], (4) one daughter of his, small [...], (5) two adolescent girl[s ...]: in all, 7 people. (6) Minu-a[hṭi], (7) farmer: his wife, two sons [of his], (8) [1] young girl, (9) a daughter of his, of 4 spans' height, (10) a son of his, of 3 spans' height, (11) another [son] of his, weaned: (12) [in all 8] people. (13) [...]nu-ili, farmer, (14) his [wife], an adolescent son, (15) [... of x] spans' height, (16) [... of x] spans' height, (Break) (r 1) [...]-Ša[maš], [1 son], weaned, [1 son], suckling. (r 4) [...] Grand total, 1 less than 30 people.
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/P335639/
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Transliteration
[mx x] ḫi ḫi [x x LÚ.ENGAR?] / [(x)] MÍ-šú 01-en ⸢DUMU⸣-[šú x (x)] / šá-ni-ú DUMU-⸢šú⸣ [x x (x x)] / 01-et DUMU.MÍ-su TUR-[x x x x] / 02-ta MÍ.ba-tu-la-[te x x x] / PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ mmi-nu—⸢aḫ⸣-[ṭi] / LÚ.ENGAR MÍ-šú 02 DUMU-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / [01?] ṣa-ḫu-ur-⸢ti⸣ / DUMU.MÍ-su 04 ru-ú-⸢ṭu⸣ / DUMU-šú 03 ru-ú-ṭu / [DUMU]-šú šá-ni-ú pir-su / [PAB 08?] ZI-MEŠ / [mx-x]-⸢nu⸣—DINGIR LÚ.ENGAR / [x x x]-šú DUMU-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335639.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335639). 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/P335639/.
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