Position in chronology
SAA 11 206. Census Tablet (ADB 08)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (i 3) [...]Hu-[...]; [...] son of Adad-bi['di], shepherd. Samuna-aplu-iddina; Bel-banu; [1] suckling son; [1+]2 women: a total of 6 people. (i 10) 170 sheep, — tax quota assigned. [Total, in the] town Harbat-ila'i-Bel, in the steppe of the district of the town Balihu. (i 13) Salamu, farmer; 20 hectares of arable land, 10 hectares under cultivation therein; 1 ox; 1 house; 1 threshing-floor; 1 garden. (i 18) Ahâ, farmer; Tiniyâ, Se'-dikir, 2 brothers of his, adolescents; Samsi-iabi, of 4 spans' height; 2 women: a total of 6 people. 1 ox, [x] hectares of arable land;…
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/P334941/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x] mḫu-[x x x x] / [x] A m10—bi-[iʾ-di?] / [o] LÚv.SIPA UDU-[MEŠ] / msa-mu-na—A—AŠ [o] / [m]EN—ba-nu / [01?] A GA / [01] 02 MÍ-MEŠ PAB 06 / 01-me-70 UDU-MEŠ ÉŠ.QAR / [PAB] URU.ḫar-bat*—<m>DINGIR-a*.a—EN / ⸢ina mad⸣-bar šá URU.ba-li-ḫi / msa-la-mu LÚv.ENGAR / 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / 10 ANŠE ar-šú ina ŠÀ / 01 GUD 01 É / 01 ad-ru 01 GIŠ.SAR / ma-ḫa-a…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P334941.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334941). 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/P334941/.
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