Position in chronology
SAA 07 174. Record of Various Items (for the Temple) (ADD 1023)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......]...; (2) 1 [......]s, the house ...; (3) [...]-vessel [......] ...; (4) 2 pithoi of mixed spices, ...-spice, ...-spice; (5) a towel, a kandirše-garment; (6) a tuft of red wool; a bowl of scented oil; (7) 10 amphoras of ...s before ...; (9) 120 equipped tables, for each table 3 'litres' of regular bread, (11) 1 'litre' of ripītu-bread, 1 ..., 1 ...; (12) 1 'litre' of small loaves of bread; 1 thick loaf of bread; (13) 1 'litre' of huhurrutu-bread; (14) 1 homer of small loaves of bread; 2 seahs of thick loaves of bread; (r 1) 6 jars before the (temple) enterer and the priests for 2 days. (r 3) 1 homer of regular bread, 2 seahs of small bread loaves for the do[g](s) of the gods. (r 4) 4 homers of beer, 1 homer of wine for mixing.
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/P335844/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni* / 01 [x x x x x x x x]-MEŠ* É* ⸢x⸣ / ⸢DUG⸣.[x x x x x x]-ku* KUR* ⸢x⸣ / 02 DUG.ki-ra-a-⸢MEŠ <x> x⸣.ḪI.A* ŠEM ⸢x⸣ ŠEM [o] / TÚG.sa-su-up-pu* TÚG.kan*-dir*-še* / ni-ip-šú SÍG.ḪÉ.MED* kap*-pu* ša Ì*.GIŠ*—DÙG* / 10 DUG.a-ga-na-MEŠ ša ki-sa-a-ni / a-na pa-an qe-e o* / 01-me-20 BANŠUR*-MEŠ tal-lul-a*-te / ša 01-en BANŠUR* 03 qa NINDA sad*-ru / 01 qa ri-pi-tú 01 ka*-me-šú 01…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335844.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335844). 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/P335844/.
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