Position in chronology
SAA 07 069. Record of Precious Items (ADD 1063)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (i 4) [......] silver (Break) (ii 1) Total, of [...] in addition [...]. (ii 3) Total, audience-gif[t(s) ...] (ii 4) 1 ne[cklace] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x] ⸢NIM?⸣ / [x x x x x] ⸢ia⸣ BÚR* / [x x x x x] KUG.UD / [x x x x x]-⸢li*⸣-šá / [x x x x x x]-⸢pu?⸣ / PAB ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / ina UGU-ḫi [x x x] / PAB na-mur-⸢tú⸣ [x x] / 01 KUŠ.[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 P335878.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335878). 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/P335878/.
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