SAA 07 156. Account of Banquet(?) (ADD 0844)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335687

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 7

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] birds, Marduk-eṭir, (2) [...] ......s, Mannu-ki-Ninua, (3) [......] fish, Aššur-šarru-uṣur, (4) [......o]f almond, Šumma-Nabû, (5) [......] ..., Sin-šarru-uṣur, (6) [......] beer, Šulmu-[...], (Break) (r 2) [...], served hot, Arbailayu, (r 3) [......]s, Ṣalam-šarri-iqbi, (r 4) [......] Sin-iqbi.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x]+⸢x⸣.MUŠEN-.MEŠ mdŠÚ—⸢KAR-ir⸣ [o] / [x x x] BUR ZA.GUR₄-MEŠ mman-nu—ki—ni-nu-a / [x x x x x x] KU₆ maš-šur—LUGAL—PAB / [x x x] ⸢ša*⸣ duq-di mšum-ma—dPA / [x x x] ⸢dan?⸣ ni in md30—MAN—PAB / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ KAŠ mDI-mu—[x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ m[x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢ki⸣ [x x] / [x x x ṣar]-⸢ḫu*⸣-te-šú mURU.arba-ìl-a.a / [x x x x]-a*-te mNU—MAN—E / [x x x x x] m⸢30?⸣—E

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335687.

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/P335687/..
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/P335687/.

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