Position in chronology
SAA 07 097. Textile Label (ADD 0956)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) 4 [...]-garments [......]; (2) 2 ...[...]-garments [...]; (3) 3 ur[nutu]-garments [...]; (4) 2 reinforced lower garments, fe[lt]ed, [...]; (5) 3 reinforced lower garments ditto [...]; (6) 3 straight garments, ditto, [...]; (7) 3 overcoats, the front red [...]; (8) 1 [bedspread of ...]; (9) 6 blankets for a bed [...]; (10) 5 urnutu-garments, felted, the front red, of the port [...]; (11) 4 straight garments, ditto, the edging ditto; (12) 5 urnutu-garments, ditto, ditto, ditto, ...; (13) 1 cloak studded with stones; (r 1) 4 gowns of linen, the front red, of the port,…
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/P335786/
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Transliteration
⸢04⸣ TÚG.[x x x x x x] / 02* TÚG*.⸢SI*⸣.[LUḪ x x x x] / 03 TÚG.ur-[nat x x x x x] / 02* TÚG.KI—ḫal-pat ⸢bir-še?⸣ [x x] / 03 TÚG.KI—ḫal-pat :. [x x] / 03 TÚG.na-ṣa-bat :. [x x x] / 03 TÚG.qir-me* ZAG SA₅ [x x] / 01 TÚG.[qar]-PA si? ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 06 TÚG.dáp-pa-sat GIŠ.⸢NÁ⸣ [x x] / 05* TÚG.ur-nat bir-še ZAG SA₅ KAR [x (x)] / 04 TÚG.na-ṣa-bat :. NÍGIN :. [o] / 05* TÚG.ur-nat :. :. :. sa-a ⸢x⸣+[x] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335786.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335786). 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/P335786/.
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