Position in chronology
SAA 07 153. Accounts from Ceremonial Banquet (ADD 1046)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (i 2) In all, 2 oxen, [meat (from) the meal]; (i 3) 2 (cuts of) [salted] meat, (i 4) 1 breast, [...], (i 5) 1 ox in the inner precin[ct] (i 6) 1 (cut of) meat for the month, of the que[en], (i 7) [x] ox(en), care of Šarru-lu-dari. (Break) (r ii 1) 1, treasurer of Harran, (r ii 2) 1, scholars in the service of the king, (r ii 3) 1, the Assurites, (r ii 4) 2, (scholars) of Nineveh, (r ii 5) 1, (scholars) of Arbela (and) Calah, (r ii 6) 1, the Harranite(s), (r ii 7) ...... (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/P335864/
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Transliteration
⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] / ⸢PAB*⸣ 02 GUD [UZU BUR] / [o] 02 UZU [MUN] / [o] 01 GABA UD?.[ḪAL o] / [o] 01 GUD ina É—⸢a*⸣-[ni] / [o] 01 UZU ša ITI ša MÍ—É.⸢GAL*⸣ / [x] GUD ŠU.2 mMAN—lu—dà-ri / 02 ni ni [x x x] / 01 BE-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 01 [x x x x x] / 01 IGI.DUB URU.KASKAL / 01 um-man ŠU.2 MAN / 01 URU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a / 02 DUMU ni-nu-a / 01 DUMU arba-ìl kal-ḫa-a.a / 01 URU.KASKAL-a.a [o] / [01] ⸢URU?⸣.BE?—U* :. ⸢ni?⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335864.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335864). 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/P335864/.
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