Position in chronology
SAA 11 181. From a List of Farmers and Gardeners (ADD 0719)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (1) [in all, x ...]s (2) [NN], his wife (Break) (7) [N]N, farmer: (r 1) in all 6 farmers. (r 2) [Ur]da-Issar, gardener. (r 3) [N]N, gardener, his wife. (Rest obscure, then destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]-MEŠ / [x x x x x] MÍ-šú / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [mx x]+⸢x-MEŠ?⸣ LÚv.ENGAR / [o] PAB 06 LÚv.ENGAR-MEŠ / [m]⸢ARAD?⸣—15 LÚv.NU.GIŠ.SAR / [mx-x]+⸢x⸣-nu LÚv.NU.GIŠ.SAR MÍ-⸢šú⸣ / [x x] ⸢ú⸣-tur-a-ti / [x x]+⸢x⸣ šá-zi-iz-zi / [x x x x x]-⸢na⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335592.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335592). 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/P335592/.
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