Position in chronology
SAA 07 084. Fragment of Precious Stone Record (ADD 1086)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (1) [x] agat[e ...] (2) [x] papparmīnu-stone [...] (3) [x] chalcedony [...] (4) [x] chalcedony [...] (5) [x] carnelian [...] (6) [x] beet-like carnelian [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335898.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335898). 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/P335898/.
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