Position in chronology
SAA 11 210. Fragment of Census Tablet (ADB 10)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (r ii 1) 1 son; [...]; (r ii 2) Hanî, ditto; 1 son [...]; (r ii 3) Našuh-..., ditto; 2 [sons]; (r ii 4) Mu-[...]: (r ii 5) total [......] (r ii 6) in [......] (Break) (r iii 1) 7,621 sheep, — tax quota assigned; 450 sheep, not inspected. (r iii 3) 12 hectares of arable land in Harran; (r iii 4) 1517 hectares of arable land in the environs of Harran; (r iii 6) 320 hectares of arable land near the city of Hauri[na]; (r iii 8) 682 hec[tares of arable land] in the province of [...]; (r iii 10) 20 hectares [of arable land ...] (Break) (iv 2) [x vil]lages in their entirety; [x] houses in towns; [x ...]s; 9 houses. (iv 5) [x] threshing-floors; [x w]ells for water; [x ci]sterns for water. (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 DUMU [x x x x x] / mḫa-ni-i LÚv.:. 01 DUMU [x x] / ⸢mna-šuḫ—x x LÚv.:.⸣ 02 [DUMU-MEŠ] / mmu-[x x x x x] / PAB [x x x x x] / ina [x x x x x] / 07-lim-06-me-21 UDU-MEŠ ÉŠ.QAR / 04-me-50 UDU-MEŠ NU IGI.LAL / 12* ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.KASKAL / 01-lim-05-me-17 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / ina bat-te-bat-te URU.KASKAL / 03-me-20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / qa-ni URU.ḫa-u-ri-[na] / 06*-me-82 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ] / ina na-ge-[e x x] / ⸢20 ANŠE⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P334943.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 11), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334943/..
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/P334943/.
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