Position in chronology
SAA 07 158. Record of Food Offerings (ADD 1073)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] of [......]; (2) [...] the [...] meat (offered) [before] Ištar, is to revert to the pal[ace ...]; (4) [ro]ast meat (offered) before Išt[ar]; (5) [... br]east (offered) before Aššur, [...]; (6) [breas]t (offered) before Mul[lissu]; (7) [... br]east (offered) before [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[(x x) x] ⸢ša*⸣ [x x x x x] / [(x x)] ša UZU.[x x x] / [(x) ša pa-an] d15 ta-a.a-ru ⸢É.GAL⸣ <[x x]> / [UZU.šu]-bé-e ša pa-an d⸢15⸣ <[x x]> / [(x) x] ⸢UZU⸣.GABA ša pa-an daš-šur ⸢TAR?⸣ <[x x]> / [UZU].⸢GABA*⸣ ša pa-an dNIN.[LÍL] / [x x x x] ⸢UZU*⸣.GABA ša IGI d[x x x] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x šu⸣ [x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335887.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335887). 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/P335887/.
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