Position in chronology
SAA 07 143. Daily Record of Bread Received (ADD 1127)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [... the x]th [day]; (i 2) [... the x]th [day]; (Break) (ii 1) [...] the 10[+xth] day; (ii 2) [...] 8 'litres', the 23rd (day); (ii 3) 3 seahs 8 ('litres'): in all, 3 hom[ers (x seahs) x] 'litres' arrived. (ii 5) Month of Sivan (III), 2nd day. (ii 6) 3 seahs 3 'litres', the 3rd day; (ii 7) [3] seahs 3 'litres', the 4th day; (ii 8) [1] seah 6 'litres', the 5th day; 1 seah [the 6th day]; (Break) (iii 1) the 27th [day; x seahs] the 28th day; 2 seahs the 29th day; (iii 3) 2 seahs the 30th day; 4 seahs 1 'litre', (iii 4) month of Tammuz (IV), 1st day; (iii 5) 2 seahs…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x UD x]-KÁM / [x x x UD x]-KÁM / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x]+⸢x⸣ UD 10*+[x-KÁM] / [x] ⸢08⸣ qa <UD> 23-⸢KÁM⸣ / 3(bán) 08 PAB* 03* ⸢ANŠE*⸣ <[x BÁN> x] qa / e-tar-ba / ITI.SIG₄ UD 02-KÁM / 3(bán) 03 qa UD 03-KÁM / ⸢3(bán)⸣ 03 qa UD 04-KÁM / ⸢1(bán)⸣ 06 qa UD ⸢05⸣-KÁM 1(bán)* / [UD 06-KÁM x x x] / [UD] 27-[KÁM n(bán)] / UD 28-KÁM* 2(bán) ⸢UD 29*-KÁM*⸣ / 2(bán) UD 30-KÁM 4(bán)* 01 qa* / ITI.ŠU UD…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335924.
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/P335924/..
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/P335924/.
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