SAA 11 162. Dealings with the Arabs over Men and Camels (ABL 0631)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334436

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 11

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... Ya]-rapâ, [cohort co]mmander, will bring the [fugitives] of the Arabs [up t]o the lady Samsi; (and) he will bring those [o]f the lady Samsi up to the Arabs. (9) Ya-rapâ, cohort commander; (10) Hašilanu, cohort commander; (11) Gannabu, (12) Tamranu: (13) in all, four people for the fugitives. (r 2) 62, Hašilanu; (r 3) 63, Ya-rapâ: (r 4) in all, 125 stray camels. (r 6) [They have been c]ollected.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x mia]—ra-pa-a / [LÚv.GAL]—⸢ki⸣-ṣir / [x x] ša KUR.ar-ba-a.a / [ina] ⸢UGU*⸣ MÍ.sam-si / ⸢ú⸣-ba-al / ⸢ša⸣ MÍ.sam-si / ina UGU KUR.ar-ba-a.a / ú-ba-⸢la⸣ / mia—ra-pa-a GAL—ki-⸢ṣir⸣ / mḫa-šil-a-nu GAL—ki-ṣir / mga-na-bu / mta-am-ra-a-nu / PAB 04 LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / a-na ZÁḪ-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / ⸢62⸣ mḫa-šil-a-nu / 63 mia—ra-pa-a / PAB 01-me-25 ANŠE.gam-mal-MEŠ / pa*-ṣu-u-te / [x]-te-si-ru

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P334436.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334436). 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/P334436/.

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