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SAA 11 090. Distribution of Oxen and Sheep (ADD 0754)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Distribution of levy of oxen and sheep. (3) 40 oxen, first-fruits, 100 regular offerings; (5) Total 140 oxen for the levy of the house of the chief cook. (7) 20, the farmers of the gods of Nineveh, in the charge of Sin-šarru-ibni. (10) 110 oxen for the farmers, [in the charge of] Nabû-šarru-uṣur. (Break) (r 11) of the house of the chief cook.
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/P335618/
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Transliteration
za-uz-zu / ša MÁŠ GUD UDU-MEŠ / 40 GUD SAG-ME / 01-me dà-ri-u / PAB 01-me-40 GUD a-na MÁŠ? / É LÚ.GAL—MU-MEŠ / 20 LÚ.ENGAR-MEŠ DINGIR-ME-ni / ša NINA.KI / ŠU.2 md30—MAN—DÙ / 01-me-10 GUD-MEŠ / a-na LÚ.ENGAR-MEŠ / [ŠU.2] mdPA—MAN—PAB / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣.KI / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x] É? / [x x x x] ⸢kàl?⸣-ḫa / [x x x x] GIN / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-man*-a.a / É LÚ.GAL—MU-⸢MEŠ*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335618.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335618). 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/P335618/.
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