Position in chronology
SAA 11 111. Note of Horses and Mules (ADD 0701)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(1) 88 horses, (2) 6 mules: (3) in all, 94 (4) — Sin-ašared. (r 1) Month Iyyar (II), 9th day, eponym year of Abi-ram (677 B.C.).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
88 KUR / 06 GÌR / PAB 94 / m30—MAŠ / ITI.GUD UD 09 / lim-mu mAD—ra-mu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335581.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335581). 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/P335581/.
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