Position in chronology
SAA 11 030. Tribute from Tabal (SAAB 02 40)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] 2 [teams ...] of m[ule]s. (3) [...] teams of [hors]es, (4) [tribu]te of Tuatti, (5) [Hanubuni], Ašhiti, (6) [Kalu], Pulî, (7) [Hili, Uluanda], Urpallâ, (8) [Pišelmu — (in all, 9] kings of ... (and) Tabal, (11) (who) have [del]ivered [within] their year. (12) [Tr]ibute of [NN of] (the city of) Šudi[...]. (Break) (r 1) [x ta]lents [of ...], (r 2) [x] talents [of ...], (r 3) [x] talents of ala[baster], (r 4) [x] teams of [hor]ses: (r 5) Tuatti, Hanubuni, (r 6) Ašhitu, Kalu, (r 7) Pulî, Hili, (r 8) Uluanda, Urpallâ, (r 9) Pišelmu (r 10) — [in all] 9 kings (who) have delivered within their year.
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/P336799/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x]-⸢MEŠ 2? ANŠE⸣ [x (x) x]+⸢x⸣ / [(x x x)] ša ANŠE.⸢ku⸣-[di]-⸢ni⸣ / [x ANŠE].u-rat-a-ti ⸢ANŠE⸣.[KUR].⸢RA⸣-MEŠ / [ma-da?]-⸢tú⸣ ša mtu-⸢at⸣-ti / [mḫa-nu-bu-ni?] máš-ḫi-ti / [mka-a-lu] m⸢pu⸣-li-i / [mḫi-i-li? mú-lu?-an-da? mur]-pal-a / [mpi-šil-mu PAB] LUGAL-MEŠ-ni / [x x] ⸢x <x> x-ba⸣-a.a / ⸢URU⸣.ta-bal-⸢la⸣-a.a / [ina] MU.AN.NA-šú-⸢nu SUM-nu⸣ / [ma]-da-tú ša m⸢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 P336799.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336799). 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/P336799/.
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