Position in chronology
SAA 07 178. Food Offerings(?)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(1) [......] lā'u-[wine]; (2) [......] (3) [......] the temple of Ninurta; (4) [......] habbur-[win]e; (5) [......] (6) [......] chariot-horse-trainer; (7) [...... al]monds; (8) [......] male sheep (Break) (r 1) [......] (r 2) [......-da']an (Rest blank)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ la-ʾu / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x] É—dMAŠ / [x x x GEŠTIN]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ḫa-bu-ru / [x x x x x] ⸢PA?⸣ / [x x x x x] LÚ.GIŠ.GIGIR / [x x x x x] ⸢duq⸣-di / [x x x x x] ⸢UDU.NÍTA⸣ / [x x x x x x]-bu / [x x x x x]—⸢KALAG?⸣-an
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P336646.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336646). 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/P336646/.
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