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SAA 12 080. Schedule of Wine Offerings by the Magnates to the Aššur Temple (KAV 079)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) Wine that the magnates give to the Aššur Temple — (2) 40 homers (from) Habruri, a golden pot per day; (3) 25 homers, Calah; (4) 35 homers, the wine master; (5) 40 homers, Dur-Šarruken, 2 pots per day; (6) 10 homers from Izalla, the wine master, 3 litres per day; (7) 12 jugs, first fruits, for the whole year, 1 per month. (8) Total 140 homers 8 seahs, 12 jugs. (9) All this is for the whole year. (10) 15 jugs from Izalla, first fruits, each month. (11) 74 wineskins, first fruits of Ti[shri (VII)]. (12) [x+]20 homers, the commander-in-chief; (13) [......], the chief cupbearer; (Break) (r 1)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
GEŠTIN ša LÚ.GAL-MEŠ ina É—aš-šur SUM-u-ni / 40 ANŠE KUR.ḫab-ru-ri DUG.LA KUG.GI šá UD-me / 25 ANŠE URU.kal-ḫa / 35 ANŠE LÚ.GAL—GEŠTIN / 40 ANŠE URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN 02 DUG.LA šá UD-me / 10 ANŠE šá KUR.ì-zal LÚ.GAL—GEŠTIN 03 qa šá UD-me / ⸢12*⸣ DUG.ŠAB-MEŠ SAG-MEŠ šá kal MU.AN.NA 01 ⸢ša ITI⸣ / PAB 01-me-40 ANŠE 8(bán) 12 DUG.ŠAB / PAB an-ni-u ša kal MU.AN.NA / 15* DUG.ŠAB KUR.ì-zal SAG-MEŠ šá ITI / 74…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P285555.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Laura Kataja and Robert M. Whiting, Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (State Archives of Assyria, 12), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, 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/P285555/..
Translation excerpted from Kataja, L. & Whiting, R. 1995. Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period. SAA 12. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa12/P285555/.
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