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SAA 11 087. List of Domestic Animals Stolen (ADD 1133)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) In the month of Nisan (I) 60 oxen, 30 donkeys (and) 10 persons were stolen from (the village of) Bidua, (4) 90 oxen, 30 donkeys (and) 1,500 sheep were stolen fr[om (the village of) ...] in the ha[nd of NN], (7) 30 oxen, [......] (Break) (r 2) he stole [......] (r 3) chariot fighters [......] (r 4) within the 20[+xth] day [...] (r 5) 32 donkeys [......] (r 6) mixed [......] (r 7) 2,000 sh[eep ......] (r 8) were stolen from (the village of) ...ani. (e. 1) There are [...]
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/P335928/
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Transliteration
⸢ina⸣ ITI.BARAG 60 GUD-MEŠ / 30 ANŠE.NÍTA 10 LÚv.ZI-MEŠ / TAv URU.bi-du-u-a ḫab-tu / 90 GUD-MEŠ 30 ANŠE.NÍTA-⸢MEŠ⸣ / 01-lim-05-me UDU-ḪI.A ⸢TAv⸣ [x x (x x)] / ḫab-tu ina ⸢ŠU?⸣ [x x (x x)] / ⸢30 GUD-MEŠ x⸣+[x x x (x)] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / iḫ-tab-⸢ta*⸣ [x x x x] / DUMU?—SIG₅-MEŠ [x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi UD 20*+[x-KAM x x x] / 32 ANŠE-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x] / sa-mu-⸢ḫu⸣-[te x x] / 02-lim ⸢UDU⸣-[MEŠ x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ / TAv URU.⸢x-x⸣-a*-ni* ḫab-⸢ta?⸣ / i-ba-áš-šú-[u-ni 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 P335928.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335928). 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/P335928/.
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