Position in chronology
SAA 11 191. List of Men (ADD 0877a)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) Ilu-na'id [...] (2) Nergal-ašared [...] (3) Ram-Adda [...] (4) Ubrî [...] (5) [M]utaqqin-Aššur [...] (6) [Ašš]ur-šezibanni [...] (7) [...]at[...] (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/P335717/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢mDINGIR?⸣—I [x x x] / mU.GUR—MAŠ [x x x] / mra-ma-da [x x x] / mSUḪUŠ-i [x x x] / [m]⸢mu⸣-LAL—aš-šur [x x x] / [maš]-⸢šur⸣—še-zib-a-ni [x x x] / [mx]-at-[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 P335717.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335717). 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/P335717/.
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