Position in chronology
SAA 07 200. Aššur Temple Offerings
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [stomachs], livers, 1 [...], (2) [kidneys, he]arts; 5 [whole] sheep, (3) [1 sheep of] the temple, 1 [kimru]-sheep. (4) [1 goose], 4 ducks, [10 turtledoves]; (5) [a tu]reen of bouillon, [a tureen of soup]; (6) [7] big [loa]ves, [1 seah 1 'litre' of regular offering loaves], (7) [1 seah 1 'li]tre' of spiced [loaves; a 2-seah jar of hammurtu-beer], (8) [a fla]gon of [bittersweet beer, a fla]gon of bruised grain beer, (9) [a 2]-seah jar of hin[hinu-seeds, 1] shoot of sesame, (10) [2 ba]gs of [chick-peas, 2 ba]gs of sesame, (11) [6 bags of kernels, 1] seah of oil-bread;…
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/P336649/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[kar-šá-ni] ⸢UR₅⸣.ÚŠ-MEŠ 01 [x x x x] / [BIR-MEŠ] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-MEŠ 05 ⸢UDU⸣ [šal-mu-te] / [01 UDU ša] ⸢É⸣—DINGIR 01 ⸢UDU⸣ [kim-ru] / [01 KUR.GI] 04 MUŠEN—GAL-⸢ú?⸣ [10 TU.GUR₄] / [DUG.ma]-⸢zi-u⸣ A-MEŠ—UZU [DUG.ma-zi-u a-ku-si] / [07 ak]-⸢li dan-ni 1(bán) 01⸣ [qa NINDA-MEŠ gi-ne-é] / [1(bán) 01] ⸢qa⸣ NINDA.⸢qa⸣-[du-tú DUG.2(bán) KAŠ.ḫa-mur-ti] / [DUG.ma]-⸢si⸣-tú [KAŠ.la-pa-ni DUG.ma]-⸢si⸣-tú ⸢KAŠ ḫaš⸣-lat…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P336649.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336649). 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/P336649/.
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