Position in chronology
SAA 07 142. Bread and Beer to Various Personnel (ADD 0757)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...] ... (2) [... N]ineve[h]. (3) 2 seahs 5 'litres' of bread, 1 seah of be[er] — 60 tillers, consu[mption]. (5) 1 seah of bread 5 'litres' of beer — the chanters, singers and female singers, consumption. (8) 3 'litres' of bread 5 'litres' of be[er] — the Babylonians (and) the sh[epherds]. (10) 2 'litres' of bread of the stewa[rd]; (11) 2 'litres' of bread, the [...] (and) the [...] (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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/P335620/
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [(x) x URU].ni-nu-u-[a o] / 2(bán) 05 qa NINDA-MEŠ 1(bán) ⸢KAŠ⸣-[MEŠ] / 60 LÚ.qa-tin-MEŠ ⸢KÚ*⸣ / 1(bán) NINDA*-MEŠ 05 qa KAŠ-⸢MEŠ⸣ / LÚ.UŠ.KU*-MEŠ LÚ.NAR-⸢MEŠ⸣ / MÍ.NAR-MEŠ KÚ* / 03 qa NINDA-MEŠ 05 qa KAŠ-[MEŠ] / DUMU*—KÁ.DINGIR.KI LÚ.⸢SIPA?⸣-[MEŠ] / 02 qa NINDA-MEŠ šá LÚ.láḫ-⸢ḫi⸣-[ni] / 02 qa NINDA-MEŠ ⸢LÚ.ša?⸣—[x x x] / LÚ.ša*—[x x x x x] / 02 ⸢ra*⸣-[x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ša ⸢x⸣ [x 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 P335620.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335620). 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/P335620/.
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