Position in chronology
SAA 11 178. List of People Including a Goldsmith (ADD 0897)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (5) Šarru-emura[nni ...] (Break) (10) of Kar-[...]; (11) Nabû-[...], (12) son of Bi-Dadi, (13) goldsmith (14) of Kar-Shalman[eser]; (15) Arba'ilayu, (16) [son of] Aširâ, (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 [x x x x x x x x] / 10 [x x x x x x x x] / 01 [x x x x x x x x] / 04 [x x x x x x x] / mMAN—IGI.LAL-[an-ni x x x] / ru-[x x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x] / mtar-[x x x x x x x] / PAB PAB [x x x x x x] / ša kar—[x x x x x x] / mdPA—⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / A mbi—da-di o* / SIMUG.KUG.GI o* / ša kar—mDI-ma-⸢nu⸣—[MAŠ] / marba-ìl-a.a o* / [A m]a-ši-ra-a o* / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-te o*
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335737.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335737). 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/P335737/.
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