Position in chronology
SAA 07 056. Fragment of Tablet Inventory (Mel.Fin.98)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (i 1') [......], (i 2') [Reg]ular Rites [...], (i 3') ["Whenever in dist]ant days," (i 4') "Troubles which ... [...]," (i 5') "If a king [does not heed] justice," (i 6') "[...] became angry," (i 7') Namzitar[ra]. (i 8') 1 ditto, Laws of Hamm[urabi], (i 9') In the month Abba['e ...], (i 10') in the month Maš[daku ...], (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[(x) x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / [ki?]-⸢na⸣-a.⸢a⸣-[tu (x x)] / ⸢UD⸣.ME.DA—UD.⸢SÙ⸣.[UD.DA] / mar-ṣa-a-ti šá IGI i-⸢x⸣+[x x] / LUGAL—a-na—di-nim—[la—i-qúl] / i-te-zi-iz [x x] / NAM.ZI.TAR.[RA] / 01 : di-na-a-ni šá ḫa-am-⸢mu⸣—[ra-bi o] / ina ITI.AB.BA.[È (x x)] / ina ITI.MAŠ.[DÀ.KÚ (x x)] / e be ⸢ni? x⸣+[x x x] / 1 : ṭu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / 1 : ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / 1 : [x x 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 P336165.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336165). 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/P336165/.
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