Position in chronology
SAA 11 004. Fragment from List of Towns (ADD 1097)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] (2) Za[......] (3) A[......] (4) B[a......] (5) Harran [...] (6) Total: 30 tow[ns ...]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢URU.x⸣+[x x x x] / URU.za-[x x x] / URU.a-[x x x] / URU.⸢ba⸣-[x x x] / URU.⸢KASKAL?⸣ [x x x] / ⸢PAB 30 URU⸣-[MEŠ x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335906.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335906). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335906/.
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