Position in chronology
SAA 07 141. Record of Wine and Food (ADD 1061ab)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] apprentice, [...]-pot (3) [...] pomegranate(s) [...] (4) [...j]ars of wine in the house [...] (5) on a wooden [......] (Break) (10) into the charge of [......] (11) 75 wooden [......], (12) 1 [...] of N[N], (13) salt [......], (14) for [......]; (15) 2 homers, 5 seahs of w[ine ...] (Break) (r 1) 1 seah 5 'litres' of small bread-loaves [...]; (r 2) a jar of wi[ne ...]; (r 3) 2 seahs of small bread-loaves [...]; (r 4) a jar of wi[ne ...]: (r 5) all th[is ...]. (r 6) [x] hundreds ... [...] (Break) (r 11) [...]s wine of [......] (r 12) [at the disp]osal of the woman Ubit[e ...]. (r 13) [...] ... 4 'litres' of bread (r 14) [...] oxtail [...] (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/P335876/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x] ⸢LÚv?⸣.TUR* DUG.⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [(x) x] sa-a GIŠ.NU.ÚR.⸢MA?⸣ [x x x] / [x x] ⸢DUG⸣.ŠAB GEŠTIN*-MEŠ ina ⸢É?⸣ [x x x] / ⸢ina*⸣ UGU* GIŠ*.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x]+⸢x⸣-ri*-i* ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] / ⸢a-na ŠU⸣ [x x x x x] / 75* GIŠ.[x x x x x] / 01 ⸢x⸣ šá m⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / MUN* tu?-[x x x x x] / a-na [x x x x x x] / 02* ANŠE 5(bán) ⸢GEŠTIN⸣ [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 P335876.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335876). 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/P335876/.
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