Position in chronology
SAA 07 187. Aššur Temple Offerings, Day 20 (ADD 1025)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 7(Beginning destroyed) (1) 16 2-seah jars of hi[nhinu-seeds]; (2) 4 shoots of se[same]; (3) 40 [big] loa[ves]; (4) 40 spi[ced-loaves]; (5) 16 ... [...]. (6) Of the 20t[h] day.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 7 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
16* DUG.2(bán) ḫi-⸢in*⸣-[ḫi-ni o] / 04 ziq-pi ⸢ŠE⸣.[GIŠ.Ì] / 04-me NINDA.ak-[li dan-ni] / 04-me NINDA.qa-[du-tú o] / 16* šá pa-[x x x x x x] / ša UD 20-⸢KAM*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P335846.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335846). 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/P335846/.
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