Position in chronology
SAA 07 076. Note of Amounts of Metal (ADD 0689)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) 9 minas for the shielded archers; (2) 18 minas for 2 [...]; (3) 1 talent 3 minas for 11 ...; (4) [x+]2 minas for 4 chariots. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
09 MA.NA ša ša?—mu-še-zib-te* [o] / 18 MA.NA ša 02 ša* ⸢x⸣ [(x x)] / ⸢01?⸣ GÚ 03* MA* ša 11* ša* da?-⸢x⸣ [x] / [x]+02* MA.NA ša 04 GIŠ*.mu*-⸢gir*⸣-[ra-te?]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335571.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335571). 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/P335571/.
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