Position in chronology
SAA 11 131. Fragment of Military Personnel List
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (2) horse trainer of Nabû-[...] (3) prefect, incumbent on [NN] (4) for the front [......] (Break) (r 1) Mari-li't[e ...] (r 2) servant of Mannu-ki-Issar [......]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] / LÚ.GIŠ.GIGIR šá mdPA—[x x x] / LÚ.GAR-nu ina UGU m[x x x x] / a-na maḫ-ri-te [x x x x] / mma-ri—li-iʾ-⸢te?⸣ [x x x] / LÚ.ARAD mman-nu—ki—15 [x x] / LÚv.⸢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 P336715.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336715). 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/P336715/.
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