Position in chronology
SAA 07 173. Record of Various Items (ADD 1032)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) 2 seahs of [...] bread; (r 2) 6 (cuts of) meat, a j[ar of wine]. (r 3) 2 seahs of bread, 5 'litres' of small bread loav[es]; (r 4) 9 (cuts of) meat, a jar of [...] wi[ne]. (r 5) 2 'litres' of small bread loaves, 4 thick bread l[oaves].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢2(bán) NINDA-MEŠ x⸣ [x x x] / 06 UZU-MEŠ DUG.⸢ŠAB?⸣ [x x x] / 2(bán) NINDA-MEŠ 05? qa NINDA-MEŠ QÀL-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / 09 UZU-MEŠ DUG.ŠAB ⸢GEŠTIN⸣ [x x] / 02 qa NINDA-MEŠ QÀL-MEŠ 04* i-bi-[a-te]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335852.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335852). 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/P335852/.
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