Position in chronology
SAA 11 174. Deportees and their Animals (ADD 0882)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) Remuttu, 'third man' on the chariot, (2) 3 sons, 2 women, [one dau]ghter, (3) 1 son of a sister, [...] (4) 1 for ...[... don]key. (5) In all, 8; 1 dromedary [...]. (6) Kiribtu, [...] (7) one woman, 1 do[nke]y, (8) 1 dromedary, 1 [...] (9) La-baši, cavalry(man), (10) 2 slaves, 2 women. (11) In all, 5; 4 donkeys. (12) Total, 16 men (with) their folks. (13) Bel-epuš, citizen of Babylon, (14) 1 slave: in all, 2. (r 1) Sarani, Remuttu: (r 2) in all, two Urukites. (r 3) In all 20 men (and their) folks, (r 4) 2 dromedaries, 3 donkeys.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
mri-mu-tu LÚv.03-šú / 03 DUMU-MEŠ 02 MÍ-[MEŠ? 01] ⸢DUMU*⸣.MÍ / 01 DUMU—NIN [(x x)] / 01* a-na UGU ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢ANŠE*⸣.NÍTA [o] / PAB 08 01 gam-mal [x (x)]+⸢x⸣ / mki-rib*-tú ⸢LÚv⸣.[x (x) x]+⸢x⸣ / 01 MÍ 01 ⸢ANŠE*.NÍTA*⸣ / 01 gam-mal 01 ⸢LÚv⸣.<[x]> / mla—⸢ba*⸣-si ša—BAD-ḪAL / 02 LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ 02 MÍ-[MEŠ] / PAB 05 04 ANŠE [o*] / PAB 16 ERIM ZI-MEŠ-šú-nu / mEN—DÙ-uš DUMU—KÁ.DINGIR-MEŠ / 01 ARAD PAB 02 / msa-ra-a-ni mri-mu-tú / PAB 02 LÚv.UNUG!.KI-a.a / PAB 20 ERIM ZI / 02 gam-mal 03 ANŠE
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335723.
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/P335723/..
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/P335723/.
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