Position in chronology
SAA 11 052. From a Shipment of Silver from the Wine Master (Iraq 27 16d)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) 1 talent of sil[ver ...] Nabû-ahhe-[...], wine master [...]. (4) Month of Shebat (XI), 10[th] day, [eponym year of NN], chief eunuch.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 GÚ ⸢KUG?⸣.[UD x x x] / mdPA—PAB-⸢MEŠ?⸣—[x x] / GAL—GEŠTIN [x x] / ITI.ZÍZ UD 10-[KAM lim-mu mx x x] / GAL—SAG
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P336183.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 11), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336183/..
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/P336183/.
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