Position in chronology
SAA 07 149. Accounts from Ceremonial Banquet (ADD 1125)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [x saplišh]u sheep; (i 2) [x ... sheep, bur]nt offering; (i 3) [......]; (i 4) [x fa]t [sheep and spring lambs]; (i 5) [x sheep, serv]ed hot; (i 6) [x spring lambs, serv]ed hot; (i 7) [x fat]tened [sheep]; (i 8) [x sisal]hu [ditto]; (Break) (ii 1) [x] ditto, (of) the vigil; (ii 2) 1 ditto, in the inner precinct; (ii 3) 2 wood pigeons, vigil; (ii 4) 20 turtledoves, served hot; (ii 5) 10 ditto, hallam; (ii 6) 10 ditto, in the inner precinct; (ii 7) 5 gray partridges, of the meal; (ii 8) 25 ditto, from the meal ......; (ii 9) 20 jerboas; (ii 10) 10 fish of the meal;…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x UDU sap-liš]-⸢ḫu*⸣ / [x UDU e-qu-te] ⸢GÍBIL*⸣ / [x x x x x x x]-šú? / [x UDU x NIM kab]-⸢bur*⸣ / [x UDU ṣar-ḫu]-⸢te⸣-šú / [x NIM ṣar-ḫu]-⸢te*⸣-šú / [x UDU tak]-bar* / [x :. si-sal?]-⸢ḫi?⸣ / [x] ⸢:. ba*-a*.a*-du?⸣ / 01* :. ina É-a-ni / 02 tam*-šil* ba-a.a-du / 20 TU.⸢GUR₄⸣ ṣar*-ḫu-te-šú / 10 :. ḫal*-lam / 10 :. ina É-a-ni / 05 kak-kab-nat BUR* / 25 :. TAv BUR ZA*.GUR₄ GA / 20 ak-bir / 10…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335922.
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/P335922/..
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/P335922/.
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