Position in chronology
SAA 12 006. Adad-nerari III Grants a Field to a Eunuch (NARGD 02)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) [Adad-nerari (III), overseer, son of Šamši-Adad (V), overseer, son of Shalmaneser (III), likewise overseer]. (two royal seal impressions) (4) An estate [... of x] hectar[es of land] (Break) (7) [(under the authority) of] Bel-[ta]rṣi-[ilum]ma, prefect of Calah, Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, exempted (from taxes) and gave to [Nabû-d]ur-beliya, his eunuch. (r 3) The corn taxes of this field shall not be collected, the straw taxes shall not be gathered. (r 6) [The gov]ernor (and) the pr[efe]ct [shall not] e[xercise authority] over [them; ...]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mdIM—ERIM.GABA PA-lum] / [DUMU mšam-ši—dIM PA-lum] / [DUMU mdDI-ma-nu—MAŠ PA-lum-ma] / ⸢É?⸣ [(x x) x x x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ] / [(x x) x x x] ⸢x URU?⸣-a.a / [(x x) x x x]+⸢x x⸣ sa qi [(x) (x)] / [ša? md]EN—⸢tar⸣-ṣi—[DINGIR]-ma / [LÚ.GAR].KUR ⸢URU⸣.kal-ḫa / md⸢IM—ERIM.GABA LUGAL⸣ KUR—aš-šur / ú-[zak]-ki-⸢ma⸣ / [a]-⸢na⸣ [mdPA?]—⸢BÀD?⸣—EN-ia / ⸢LÚ⸣.šá—⸢SAG⸣-šu id-din / ⸢ša⸣ A.ŠÀ.GA šu-a-tum /…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336249.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336249). source
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/P336249/.
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