Position in chronology
SAA 11 144. Memorandum of Persons Subjected to Punishments (ADD 0880)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (i 2) who are each wounded, (with) their hearts ripped out (and) their tongues torn out, and mutilated. (i 6) These are the ones placed under the ... and judged: (i 8) Babilayu, son of Nabû-kaṣir; (i 9) Zer-lešir, son of Iddin-ahhe; (i 10) Ahu-le'i, son of Šamaš-naṣir; (i 11) Ahheya, son of Banî; (i 12) La-qepu, son of Ahhešu; (i 13) Bel-šallim, son of Yadi'-il; (i 14) Bel-uballiṭ, son of Bel-ahu-iddina; (i 15) Ṣallaya, son of Mannu-yari; (i 16) [...]-šarri, son of Ša-Nabû-šû; (Break) (ii 3) which [...] twice/into two. (ii 4) Total 35 fam[ilies ...], mutilated ...[...].…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢x iš? x⸣ [x x x x x x] / ⸢ša a⸣-ḫa-ḫu maḫ-ṣu-u-ni / ŠÀ-MEŠ-šú-nu ZI-ḫu-nin-ni / EME-MEŠ-šú-nu šal-lu-pa / ù bat-tu-qu / an-nu-te šá KI.TA ia-an-nu-si / kar-ru-u-ni de-e-nu-u-ni / mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a DUMU mdPA—ka-ṣir / mNUMUN—GIŠ A mAŠ—PAB-MEŠ / mPAB—li-i DUMU mdšá-maš—PAB-ir / mPAB-MEŠ-ia DUMU mba-ni-i / mla*—qe-pu A mPAB-MEŠ-šú / mEN—šal-lim A mia-di—DINGIR / mEN—TI.LA A mEN—PAB—AŠ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335721.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335721). 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/P335721/.
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