Position in chronology
SAA 11 205. Census Tablet (ADB 13)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [... x hectares of arable] land, [x hectares] under cultivation therein; 1 house. (i 4) Total, in the village of Hamû, near the town of Tinunî. (i 6) Tal'a, farmer; 4 people: a total of 5. 20 hectares of arable land. (i 9) Total, in the village of Akaru, in the district of the town Piru'a[yu]. (i 11) Se'-šimki, gardener; [N]ašuh-iddina, his son, adolescent: in all, 2 people. (i 14) [x] thousand stalks of vine; [x he]ctares of arable land. (Break) (ii 2) N[N ......]; Mar-šarri-ila'i, son of [NN], shepherd; 50 sheep, — tax qu[ota] assigned. (ii 6) Total, in the…
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/P334944/
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Transliteration
[x x x x ANŠE A].ŠÀ / [x ANŠE] ar-šú ina ŠÀ / 01 É / PAB URU.ŠE—mḫa-mu-u / qa-ni URU.ti-nu-ni-i / mta-al-a LÚ.ENGAR / 04 ZI-MEŠ PAB 05 / 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / PAB URU.ŠE—ma-ka-ru / ina URU.pi-ru*-ʾa-[a] / mse-eʾ—ši-im-ki LÚv.NU.GIŠ.SAR / [m]⸢na⸣-šuḫ—MU A-šú ṣa / PAB 02 / [x]-lim GIŠ.til-lit / [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / mGIŠ?-[x x x x x] / mA—MAN—DINGIR-a.a DUMU [x x] / LÚv.SIPA UDU-[MEŠ] / 50…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P334944.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334944). 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/P334944/.
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