Position in chronology
SAA 07 078. Record of Storage of Precious Items (ADD 0932)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [x] hundred 10 talents in one wooden ch[est]; (2) 525 talents in one wooden chest; (3) 7,000 silver bowls in one wooden chest; (4) 108 silver bricks; (5) 720 silver bowls; (6) 69 bolts of silve[r]; (7) 8 shields of silver; (8) 4 yoke finials of silver; the scraps of silver are together (with it): (10) all, in one wooden chest. (11) 450 vessels of si[lver], be[longing to] the [chie]f cupbearer, in one wooden ches[t]. (r 2) [... of go]ld therein; (r 3) [... ca]pital therein. (r 4) [......]... (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/P335766/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x]-⸢me?⸣-10* GÚ.UN ina 01 GIŠ.UM-[ni-ni] / 05*-me*-25* GÚ o* ina 01 GIŠ.UM-ni-ni / 07-lim kap-pi KUG.UD ina 01 GIŠ.UM-⸢ni-ni⸣ / 01-me-08 SIG₄-MEŠ KUG.UD / 07-me-20 kap-pi KUG.UD / 69 SAG.KUL NIM.MA KUG.⸢UD⸣ / 08 a-ri-tú KUG.UD / 04 ša—UGU—ni-ri KUG.UD / ḫu-še-e KUG.UD is-se-niš / PAB ina 01 GIŠ.UM-ni-ni / 04-me-50 ú-de-e ⸢KUG*⸣.[UD] / ⸢ša? LÚ?.GAL?⸣—KAŠ*.LUL* [o] / ina 01 GIŠ.UM-ni-⸢ni⸣ / [(x) x KUG].⸢GI⸣ ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣ / [x x] ⸢SAG⸣.DU ina ŠÀ-bi / [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 P335766.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335766). 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/P335766/.
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