SAA 11 009. Fragment from List with City Names (Iraq 32 23)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336207

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P336206 · ~700 BCE

SAA 11 005. Fragment from List of Contributions from Provinces(?) (Iraq 32 22)

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) of I[......] (2) [o]f Kullani(a) [...] (Rest destroyed)…”

P336209 · ~700 BCE

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P336205 · ~700 BCE

SAA 11 006. Part of List of Contributions from Provinces(?) (Iraq 32 21)

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) 11 — (governor of) [......] (2) 40 — (governor of) Sa[m'al] (3) 13 — (governor of) H…”

Transliteration

URU.[x x x x x] / URU.[x x x x x] / URU.[x x x x x] / URU.ḫa-[x x x x x] / PAB 06 ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / i-⸢šu⸣-[x x x x] / URU.[x x x x x] / ⸢PAB⸣ [x x x x] / ša [x x x x x x] / i-[x x x 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 P336207.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336207). 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/P336207/.

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