SAA 07 019. List of Various Craftsmen (ADD 0868)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335709

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 7

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... gold]smith (2) [... stone]-borers (3) [... st]one-carver (4) [... en]graver (5) [...] coppersmith (6) [... ar]chitect (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x LÚ].⸢SIMUG⸣.KUG.GI / [x x x LÚ.GAR].U.U*-MEŠ / [x x x LÚ].⸢BUR*⸣.GUL* / [x x x LÚ].⸢KAB*⸣.SAR / [x x x LÚ].SIMUG—URUDU / [x x x LÚ].⸢še⸣-lap-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 P335709.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335709). 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/P335709/.

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