SAA 07 179. Food and Drink Offerings(?)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336647

Translation · reference

High confidence

(Too fragmentary for translation)

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/P336647/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x x KUŠ].⸢SAL⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]-pi / [x x x x x]-ṣu-te / [x x x x] ⸢ka?⸣ ḫi ⸢bu?⸣ / [x x x x]-⸢gúr?⸣-u-ni-ni / [x x x x]-MEŠ KUR-ru / [x x x x] ⸢UDU?⸣-MEŠ 01 KUŠ.SAL / 01 KUŠ.⸢SAL?⸣ [x x x] / 01 AM [x x x] / ina IGI ⸢KUR?⸣ [x x x] / 01 GAL—⸢ki⸣-[ṣir? x x x] / 02 TÚG.me?-[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 P336647.

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/P336647/..
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/P336647/.

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