SAA 11 019. Building Progress Report (CT 53 429+)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313842

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 11

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (3) [...]s of the magnates. (4) [... fourths of the ga]teway completed (5) [...... gatew]ay, a half, 2 brick-cour[ses] (6) [... fou]rths, 3 cross-[beams] (7) [......] brick-courses l[aid] (8) [......] fourths [...] (9) [......] brick-courses [...] (Break) (2') [...... brick]-courses [...] (3') [......] compl[eted ...] (4') [...]... 2 brick-courses l[aid] (5') [......] Arzuhin[a] (6') [......] Habruri (7') [...... Ni]neveh, Kilizi (8') [......] completed [...] (9') [...... br]ick-course [...] (10') [......] com[pleted ...] (11') [...... bri]ck-course [...] (12') [......…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [x x x x] ⸢KÁ⸣.GAL ga-mu-rat [x x] / [x x x x x KÁ].⸢GAL?⸣ meš-lu 02 ti-ik-[pi] / [x x x x qa]-ta-te 03 bi-ri-[a-te] / [x x x x x x] ti-ik-pi ⸢kar⸣-[ru] / [x x x x x] ⸢qa⸣-ta-te [x x] / [x x x x x ti]-ik-pi ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x ti]-ik-pi [x x x] / [x x x x x x] ga-⸢mur⸣ [x x] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-tú 02 tik-pi ⸢kar⸣-[ru] / [x 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 P313842.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313842). 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/P313842/.

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