Position in chronology
SAA 11 021. Labour Arrangements for Building (ADD 0691)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] hand [...] (2) [...... they] shall glaze [the brick]s. (3) [... ha]lf, 2 brick-courses; (4) [... 1 brick]-course remaining, they shall glaze the bricks. (5) [...] in the city-wall, 2 brick-courses remaining, (6) [...] of them have been laid (7) [......] they shall glaze the bricks. (8) [...]... Hatarikka, Ṣupat. (9) [...] in the sūtu-measures of the Review Palace (10) [...] their [cra]ftsmen are present. (11) [......] (12) [...] remaining (Break) (r 1) [...] they shall lay, (r 2) [(...) they shall gla]ze [the bricks]; (r 3) [...] the magnates (r 4) [...] limestone (r 5) [...] their resid[ences], (r 6) [...] they shall glaze [the bricks]. (r 7) [Month of ...], 4th day, Across the River. (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/P335572/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ qa-ti [x x x] / [x x x x x x SIG₄]-⸢MEŠ⸣ i-šá-⸢ḫu⸣-[ṭu] / [x x x x] ⸢meš⸣-lu 02 ti-ik-[pi] / [x x x x x 01 tik]-pu re*-ḫe SIG₄*-MEŠ ⸢i-šá-ḫu⸣-[ṭu] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina ⸢BÀD⸣ 02 tik-pi re*-ḫe / [x x x x x x ina] ⸢ŠÀ?⸣ ka-ri-ir / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ SIG₄-MEŠ i-šá-ḫu-ṭu / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bi URU.ḫa-ta-ri*-ka URU.ṣu-ba*-a / [x x x x x x] ina ŠÀ sa?-te ša É.GAL—ma-šar-te / [x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335572.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335572). 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/P335572/.
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