Position in chronology
SAA 07 059. Six Years’ Receipts of Precious Items in the Reign of Assurbanipal (ADD 0927)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) [who g]ave (i 2) [.....] (i 3) [... Babyl]on (i 4) [.....] (i 5) [.....] (i 6) [...]... (i 7) [... pra]yer bowl (i 8) [...]...(-ornament) (i 9) [... jew]ellery. (i 10) [... Ak]kadian (Break) (ii 1) Total, the crown prince's revenues. (ii 2) Revenue from the eponym year of Sagab (651 B.C.) to the eponym year [of Nabû]-šar-ahhešu (646 B.C.), for 6 y[ea]rs, which they brought into the treasury: (ii 7) 11 talents, 20[+x minas of sil]ver, as work-materials; (ii 8) 29 silver tribute bowls, 25 minas in weight. (ii 10) 40 togas [...]; (ii 11) 51 talents [...] (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/P335762/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x]-din*-u-ni / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x KÁ.DINGIR].⸢RA⸣.KI / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x]-tú? / [(x) x] ⸢ZAG⸣—up-nu / [x x x x]-⸢MEŠ*⸣ GABA.GÚ / [x x x x šá]-ku-tú* / [x x x x x] ⸢KUR⸣.URI-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x]-pat / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] / 05 [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / 800+[x x x x x x x x x] / PAB ir-bu šá A—MAN / ir-bu šá lim-⸢me*⸣ [m]sa₁₆-gab…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335762.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335762). 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/P335762/.
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