Position in chronology
SAA 07 016. List of People (ADD 0845)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (ii 1) total, 5 [...]. (ii 2) Budâ; (ii 3) Adda-rahi[mu]; (ii 4) Aššur-l[e'i]; (ii 5) Nabû-eriba; (ii 6) Mannu-k[i-...]; (ii 7) Ṭab-[...]; (Break) (r ii 1) Aya-r[ame]; (r ii 2) Nuhšaya; (r ii 3) Abi-qamu; (r ii 4) Nabû-ahu-iddina; (r ii 5) Le'i-pašir; (r ii 6) Arbailayu; (Rest destroyed)
Source: Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1992. Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration. SAA 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa07/P335688/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]-a / [x x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [x x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] / PAB 05 [x x x x x] / mbu-da-[a?] / m10—ra-ḫi-[mu?] / maš-šur—⸢ZU?⸣ / mdPA—⸢SU?⸣ / mman-nu—⸢ki⸣—[x x] / mDÙG.GA—[x—x x] / mda.a—⸢ra?⸣-[me] / mḪÉ.NUN-a.a / mAD—qa-mu / mdPA—PAB—AŠ / mZU—pa-šir* / marba-ìl-a.a / [x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335688.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335688). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1992. Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration. SAA 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa07/P335688/.
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