Position in chronology
SAA 11 036. Distribution of Tribute to Palace Personnel et al. (ADD 1036)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) [Distribution of t]ribute. (i 2) [...] regular-offering [sheep, 1] sheep, a bowl of wine: treasurer. (i 5) 5 seahs of flour, 5 seahs of barley, a bowl of wine: regular-offerings shepherd. (i 9) 100 tribute sheep, 2 sheep, 2 bowls (of wine): chief cook. (i 12) A sheep, a bowl (of wine): his scribe. (i 14) ditto: chief of accounts. (i 15) 7 seahs of honey, 4 minas of wax, a talent of copper: chief fuller. (i 18) 2 sheep, 2 bowls (of wine), his food, (i 20) 10 minas of copper, 2 sheep, 2 bowls (of wine): oil master. (i 23) The same: his scribe. (i 24) 4 fig-loaves, 2 ... of figs, 10…
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/P335856/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢ma*⸣-da-te / [x x] da-ri-i / [01] UDU* DUG.ŠAB GEŠTIN / LÚv.IGI.DUB / 5(bán) ZÍD.DA / 5(bán) ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / DUG.ŠAB GEŠTIN / LÚv.SIPA da-ri-i / 01-me UDU ma-da-te / 02 UDU 02 DUG.ŠAB / LÚv.GAL—MU / UDU DUG.ŠAB / (blank) LÚv.A.BA-šú / :.- ma GAL—NÍG.ŠID / 7(bán) LÀL 04* MA* DUḪ*.LÀL / bi-lat URUDU-MEŠ / GAL—TÚG.UD / 02 UDU 02 DUG.ŠAB / a-kul-la-šú / ⸢10⸣ MA.NA URUDU / 02 UDU 02 DUG.ŠAB /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335856.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335856). 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/P335856/.
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