Position in chronology
SAA 11 231. List of Groves (ADD 0778)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (1) [1 grove of the to]wn of Kar-N[N]; (2) [1 grove] of the town of Halz[i...]; (3) [1 grove] which is beneath the town of Bar[...]. (4) [in all, x] groves assigned to Kiṣ[ir-...], which the king (himself) bequeath[ed]. (6) 1 grove of the town Karmê [...]; (7) 1 grove of the Gardener[s] Town, in the farmland of the town Sa[...]; (9) [1] grove of the town of Dun[ni-Šamaš], in the farmland of the town of Sa[lli]; (11) [1 g]rove of the brook [...] in the farmland of the town [...]. (13) [1] grove of the town A[...]; (14) [1 grove] of [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[01 qab-lu ša] ⸢URU⸣.kar—m[x x] / [01 qab-lu] ša URU.ḫal-⸢zi⸣-[x x] / [01 qab-lu] ša KI.TA URU.bar-[x x] / [PAB x] qab-la-te ina IGI mki-⸢ṣir⸣—[x] / [o] ša LUGAL i-di-nu-[u-ni] / 01 qab-lu ša URU.kar-me-e [x x] / 01 qab-lu ša URU.NU.GIŠ.SAR-[MEŠ] / ina A.QAR URU.sa-[x x] / [01] qab-lu ša URU.du-⸢un*⸣-[ni—dUTU] / ⸢ina*⸣ A.QAR URU.sa-[al-li] / [01] ⸢qab⸣-lu ša na-ḫal [x x x] / ina A.QAR URU.[x x x] / [01] qab-lu ša URU.a-[x x x] / [01 qab-lu] ša [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 P335637.
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/P335637/..
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/P335637/.
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