Position in chronology
SAA 11 225. List of Estates in Various Provinces (ADD 0774)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [x hectares in] the town [...]u in the province of Barhalza. (2) [x he]ctares in the town of Zinbanu; (3) [x] hectares in the town of Gulsunu; (4) [1] vineyard in the town of Hubaba; (5) [in all], 80 hectares of land, 1 vineyard in the province of Si'im[mê]. (6) 200 (hectares) — the town of Napissu; (7) 50 hectares — the town Bel-iqbi: (8) in all, 250 hectares of land in the province of Lahiru. (9) [1 vi]neyard in the town of Ebirnê in the region of [...] (10) [x+]400 [hectares] of land; 2 vineyar[ds]: (11) [to]tal, the prefect of [...] (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/P335634/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[(x x) x]+⸢x⸣ URU.[x (x)]-⸢ú* NAM* KUR*.bar*-ḫal*⸣-[za?] / [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ URU.zi-in-ba*-nu* / [x] ANŠE URU.gul-su-nu / [01] GIŠ.SAR til-lit URU.ḫu-ba-ba / [(PAB)] 80 ANŠE A.ŠÀ 01 GIŠ.SAR til-lit NAM KUR.si*-⸢me*⸣-[e?] / ⸢02⸣-me URU.na-pi-su / 50 ANŠE URU.EN—iq-bi / PAB 02-me-50 ANŠE A.ŠÀ NAM URU.la-ḫi-⸢ri⸣ / [01?] ⸢GIŠ⸣.SAR til-lit URU.e-bir-né-e ina KUR.[x x] / [x]+04-me <$x x$> A.ŠÀ 02 GIŠ.SAR til-⸢lit*⸣ / ⸢PAB?⸣ LÚv.GAR [x (x)]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335634.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335634). 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/P335634/.
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