Position in chronology
SAA 11 182. List of Slaves (ADD 0913)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning broken) (1) [N]ani [......] (2) Nabû'a, [......] (3) Nabû-le'i, [......] (4) Šulmu-šarri, [......] (5) incumbent on Arbailayu, [......] (6) Bel-taklak, slave of E[...] (7) Nabû-kuṣuranni, ditto (of) [NN] (8) Nusku-šezibanni, ditto (of) A[hu-...] (9) Adad-ahu-iddina, ditto (of) [NN] (r 1) Urda-Baniti, slave of N[N] (r 2) Šakiru, slave of Ahab[û] (r 3) Pulu, ditto (of) Mannu-ki-[...] (r 4) N[N] ...[...] (Rest broken)
Source: 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/P335750/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[m]⸢na?-ni-i⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [m]dPA-u-a [LÚ.x x x x x x] / mdPA—ZU ⸢LÚ*⸣.[x x x x x x] / mDI-mu—LUGAL ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / ina UGU mURU.arba-ìl-a.a [x x x x x] / mEN—tak-lak LÚ.ARAD me-[x x x x] / mdPA—KÀD-a-ni LÚ.:. m⸢x⸣+[x x x] / mdPA.TÚG—še-zib-a-ni LÚ.:. m⸢PAB?⸣-[x x (x)] / mdIM—PAB—AŠ LÚ.:. m⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / mARAD—dDÙ-ti LÚ.ARAD šá m[x x x x] / mšá-ki-ru LÚ.ARAD šá mPAB-bu-[u] / mpu-u-lu LÚ.:. mman-nu—ki—[x x] / mURU.[x] ⸢x x x⸣ [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 P335750.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335750). 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/P335750/.
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