Position in chronology
SAA 07 152. Accounts from Ceremonial Banquet (ADD 0971)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (r i 1) [x], Elamit[e] 'third men,' (r i 2) cohort commander[s]; (r i 3) 1, chariot-(horse-trainers); (r i 4) 3, bodyguard(s) of the ša šēpi guard, of the cha[riotry]; (r i 5) 1, of the open chariotry; (r i 6) Total, 8. 1 staff-bearer. (r i 7) 1 chariot driver, 'third man' of the crown prince, Danî; (r i 8) 1, second table of the crown prince; (r i 9) 2, regular troops (of) ditto; (r i 10) 2, cohort commanders (of) ditto; (r i 11) [x], chariot-horse-trainer(s) of the crown prince; (r i 12) [x], open chariotry of the crown prince; (r i 13) [x, ch]ariot driver[s, ditto];…
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/P335799/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x] 03*-šú-MEŠ NIM.[MA-a.a] / GAL—ki-ṣir-[MEŠ] / 01 GIGIR (erasure) [o] / 03 qur*-ZAG GÌR.2 GIŠ*.⸢GIGIR*⸣ / 01* DU₈-MEŠ / PAB 08 01 GIŠ.PA / 01 DIB—PA 03-šú ša A—MAN m*da*-ni*-i* / 01 BANŠUR 02-u A—MAN / ⸢02*⸣ SAG.UŠ*-MEŠ :. / ⸢02*⸣ GAL—ki-ṣir-MEŠ :. / [x] GIGIR A—MAN / [x x] ⸢DU₈*⸣-MEŠ A—MAN / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] / [(x x) x x] ⸢x ik?⸣ / [(x x) x]+⸢x⸣ su SAL UD* TAR / [(x x) x]+⸢x⸣ ša KI*-šú /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335799.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335799). 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/P335799/.
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