SAA 11 010. List of Arrivals from the Provinces (ADD 0921)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335756

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(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (5) [...]taya : Arbela (6) [...]tubâ : Kilizu (7) [...]sanzi : Mannu-lušezib (8) [L]a-ṣahittu : Til-[...] (9) [...]matî : Ba[...] (10) Ina-Esaggil-gapšat : Ša-[...] (11) Nanaya-šarrat : Šima[...] (12) [Ina-x]-riššat : Na[...] (13) [...]ti-milki : Haurina (r 1) [...] : paternal house of [...] (r 2) [...]a : House of [NN] (r 3) [...-š]arru-uṣur : Lu[...] (r 4) [......] she has come, she [...] (r 5) [...]-ramat : Ar[...] (r 6) [...]nâ : [...] (r 7) [...]irtu : [...] (r 8) [...l]iyâ : [...] (r 9) [...]bâ : [...] (r 10) [...]-kudurri did not come (r 11) [......] I do not know (Rest destroyed)

Source: 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/P335756/

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Transliteration

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335756.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335756). 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/P335756/.

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