Position in chronology
SAA 11 177. Inventory of People and Property (ADD 0906)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) N[N ......] (3) in all [......] (4) Nergal-šallim [......] (5) Total, 1 bodyguar[d ...], (6) 1 tailor, 3 [...], (7) 1 vegetable gardener (8) 1 adolescent, 1 ... 1 ...: (9) in all 9 adult people. (Break) (r 1) 1 son of 5 spans, 1, ditto, of 4 spans, 2, ditto, weaned: in [all, 4 sons]. (r 2) Total, 13 men, 12 women [...], (r 3) 3 daughters of 4 spans, 5, ditto, of 3 spans: total 8 [daughters]: (r 4) in all, 20 women, ... (Grand) total 33 men [and women] (r 5) 6 oxen, 1 vegetable garden, 2 [...]. (r 6) [Grand total x] bodyguard[s ...], (r 7) [...] 21 tailors [......] (r 8) [x] vegetable [gardeners ...] (Rest destroyed)
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/P335744/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢m*⸣[x x x x x x x x x x] / ma-[x x x x x x x x x x] / PAB [x x x x x x x x x x] / mU.GUR—šal-⸢lim⸣ [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] / PAB 01 LÚv.qur-bu-[ti x x (x x)] / 01 LÚv.ka-ṣir 03 ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 01 NU.GIŠ.SAR—ur-qí [(x x)] / 01 ṣa-ḫur-tú 01 DU? 01 ⸢x⸣ [(x)] / PAB 09 ERIM KALAG-[MEŠ?] / 01 DUMU 05 01 :* 04 02 :* pir* ⸢PAB*⸣ [04 DUMU-MEŠ] / PAB 13 ERIM-MEŠ 12 MÍ.x ⸢x⸣+[x x] / 03 DUMU.MÍ 04 05 : 03 PAB 08?…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335744.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335744). 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/P335744/.
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