Position in chronology
SAA 11 228. Schedule of Estate Assignments (ADD 0918)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (i 3) [x (hectares) of land in the city of Naṣib]ina, (i 4) [...]... (i 5) [...] took; (i 6) [assigned to NN] son of Danî. (i 7) [x hectares in the town of ...]pû (Break) (ii 1) 1 farmer [...]; (ii 2) Asqudu [...], (ii 3) [...]. (ii 4) 40 hectares of land in the town of Ṣelâ, assigned to Kalhayu, the ša šepi guard(sman). (ii 7) 40 hectares of land in the town of Apiani, assigned to Barbiri, the Gurrean [...]. (ii 10) [x+]20 [hectares of land in the town ...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]-u / [x x x x x x x]—DÙ* / [x A.ŠÀ ina URU.na?-ṣi?]-⸢bi?⸣-na / [x x x x x x]-ṭu*-ti-šú / [x x x x x x] i-na-ši / [ina IGI mx x x] A? mda-ni-i / [x A.ŠÀ ina URU.x]-⸢pu?⸣-ú / 01 LÚ.ENGAR [x x x x] / mas-qud ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / (blank) LÚ.⸢x-x⸣ / 40 A.ŠÀ ina URU.ṣe?-e-la-a / ina IGI mURU.kal-ḫa-a.a / (blank) LÚ.šá—GÌR*.2? / 40 A.ŠÀ ina URU.a-pi-a-ni / ina IGI mbar-bi-ri / LÚ.gur-a.a [x x (x x)] / [x]+20* [A.ŠÀ ina URU.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 P335754.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335754). 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/P335754/.
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