Position in chronology
SAA 12 005. Fragment of a Text Similar to No. 1 (NARGD 50)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [may] Aššur, [the great] lo[rd, establish ...... by his command]. (Blank space) (r 2) Whoever [takes away from Aššur] any o[f the towns that I have given to Aššur, may] Aššur, the gre[at] lord, [cast a furiously angry eye upon him]. Do not [remove any of the towns of Aššur, (but) add to the towns of Aššur. Aššur, the great lord, will hear your prayer]. (r 5) [He shall not give these] towns, [fields, houses and orchards to any other governor, he shall give them (only) to the governor of the temple of Aššur. The king will punish the one who gives them to another governor — the king himself will punish the one who gives ..., and the town, field, orchard and people shall return to the temple of Aššur]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
aš-⸢šur EN⸣ [GAL-ú x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x-la a-na qí-bi-šu liš-kun] / man-nu ša ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-[bi URU-MEŠ-ni? šá? a-na aš-šur a-di-nu-ni TAv IGI aš-šur? i-na-šu-ú-ni] / aš-šur EN ⸢GAL⸣-[ú ŠÚR-iš IGI ḪUŠ ina? UGU-ḫi-šú x x x TAv ŠÀ URU-MEŠ-ni ša aš-šur] / la ta-[na-šar ina UGU URU-MEŠ ša aš-šur ra-ad-di aš-šur EN GAL-ú ik-ri-bi-ka i-šem-me] / URU-⸢MEŠ⸣ [A.ŠÀ-MEŠ É-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336286.
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/P336286/..
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/P336286/.
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