Position in chronology
SAA 07 105. Textile Label
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] 2 cloaks, ... [...]; (3) [......] 3 veils, the front (red), of the port, 1 veil [...]; (4) [......] 7 bedspreads of ...; 19 blankets for a bed; (5) [......] 4 textiles of red wool; 5 ...s of red wool, red; (6) [...] multicoloured, large; 7 ..., multicoloured, large; 10 robes, multicoloured; (7) [...] ... multicoloured, dim; 1 robe, red, of the country; 1 ..., red; (8) [......]s red, of the port; 19 shawls, the front red, of the port; (9) [x] reinforced [lower] garments, with edging; 1 upper garment, red, of the country; 1 shaw[l]; (10) [...] ... red, (with)…
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/P336641/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 02 gul-IGI.[2 (x)] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 03 ra-di-du-MEŠ ⸢ZAG KAR x 01⸣ ra-⸢di-du⸣ <[x x x]> / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ 07 qar-PA nak-ba-si 19 dáp-pa-sat GIŠ.NÁ [o] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 04 ši-tú ḪÉ.MED ⸢05⸣ SI.LUḪ ḪÉ.MED SA₅ [(x x)] / [x x x] GÙN GAL-MEŠ 07 šá—IŠ ⸢GÙN⸣ GAL-MEŠ 10 BAR.DIB GÙN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [o] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ GÙN LU-MEŠ 01 BAR.DIB SA₅ KUR 01 ša—IŠ SA₅…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P336641.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336641). 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/P336641/.
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