SAA 07 102. Textile Label (ADD 0683)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335565

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 7

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [x st]raight garments, the edging [...]; (2) [x u]rnutu-garments, felted, the edging [...]; (3) [x h]uzu[nu-garments ...]; (4) [x u]pper garments [...]; (5) [x sh]awls, the fro[nt ...]; (6) [x] lower [garments] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x TÚG.na]-ṣa-bat NÍGIN [x x x x] / [x TÚG].⸢ur⸣-nat bir NÍGIN [x x x x] / [x TÚG].⸢ḫu⸣-zu-[nu x x x x] / [x TÚG].⸢AN⸣.TA-MEŠ [x x x x] / [x TÚG].⸢muk⸣-lal ⸢ZAG⸣ [x x x] / [x]+⸢x⸣ TÚG.KI*—[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 P335565.

Attribution

Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 7), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335565/..
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/P335565/.

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