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SAA 11 094. Record of Domestic Animals (ADD 1134)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 6 don[keys, inspected], (2) 17 [donkeys, dead]. (3) Total 23 donkeys. (4) 682 oxen, inspected, (5) 1,127, dead. (6) Total 1,809 oxen. (7) 543 sheep, inspected, (8) 2,215, dead. (9) [Total 2],758 sh[eep.] (r 1) Total that were in Nineveh. (r 2) 96 oxen, (r 3) 2,490 sheep. (r 4) [To]tal that were in Dur-Šarruken. (r 5) [At] the instruction of Marduk-eriba (r 6) [......]
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/P335929/
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Transliteration
⸢06 ANŠE⸣-[MEŠ IGI.LAL-MEŠ] / 17 [ANŠE-MEŠ ÚŠ-MEŠ] / PAB 23 ANŠE-[MEŠ] / 06-me-82 GUD-MEŠ IGI.LAL-MEŠ / 01-lim-01*-me-27 ÚŠ*-MEŠ / PAB 01-lim-08*-me-09 GUD-MEŠ / 05-me-43 UDU-MEŠ IGI.LAL-MEŠ / ⸢02⸣-lim-02*-me-15* ÚŠ-MEŠ / [PAB 02-lim]-⸢07?⸣-me-58* ⸢UDU⸣-[MEŠ] / PAB ša ina NINA.KI / 96 <$15$> GUD-MEŠ / 02-lim-04-me-90 UDU-MEŠ / ⸢PAB⸣ ša ina URU.BÀD—sa-ru-uk-ka / [ina] qí-bi mdŠÚ—SU? / [x 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 P335929.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335929). 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/P335929/.
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