Position in chronology
SAA 11 099. List of Commodities Including Animals (CT 53 515)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] donkey [...] (2) [x] ca[mels] (3) 10 sheep [...] (4) 3 seahs of oil [...] (5) (all) this [...] (6) of the day(s) [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x] ANŠE [x x x x] / [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣.ga-[mal-MEŠ] / ⸢10⸣ UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ [x x x] / 3(bán) Ì-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] / an-ni-u [x x x] / ša UD-me [x x x] / ⸢x x ḫu?⸣ [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 P313928.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313928). 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/P313928/.
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