Position in chronology
SAA 12 004. Fragment of a Text Similar to Nos. 1-3 (KAV 116)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) adjoining the road [......] (2) Total: an estate of 10 hectar[es of field ......] (3) An estate in Kapr[a... ......] (4) adjoining the field of Ra ...[......] (5) An estate of 8 hectares of field, adjoining the fi[eld of ......] (6) adjoining the field of Ahu-[......] (7) son of Nabû-lada of [......] (8) an estate of 300 (hectares) of field, a house, an orcha[rd] of 5 hectares [......] (9) adjoining the town of Bab-burti of the house of the te[am] commander [......] (r 1) adjoining the town of Bit-ili of the house [of ......] (r 2) adjoining the orchard of Iq[bi-... ......] (r 3) adjoining the orchard of [......] (r 4) adjoining the orchar[d of ......] (r 5) An estate of 9 [......] (r 6) adjoining [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
SUḪUR KASKAL [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / PAB É 10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] / É ina URU.ka-ap-⸢ra?⸣-[x x x x x x x x] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mra-⸢a*⸣-[x x x x x x] / É 08 ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR ⸢A*⸣.[ŠÀ ša mx x x x x] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša ma-ḫu—[x x x x x x] / DUMU mdPA—la-da ša m⸢d⸣[x x x x x x] / É 03-me A.ŠÀ É 05 ANŠE GIŠ.⸢SAR⸣ [x x x x x x] / SUḪUR URU.KÁ—PÚ ša É LÚ.GAL—ú-⸢ra⸣-[te x x x] / SUḪUR…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P285576.
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/P285576/..
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/P285576/.
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