Position in chronology
SAA 12 007. Adad-nerari III Acquires Land in Bet-šašširi for a Grant (NARGD 05)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed or too fragmentary for translation) (r 1) has contracted and acquired (it) from Aššur-belu-uṣur for 4 talents and 10 minas of silver. The money is paid completely. (r 4) [An estate of x+]10 hectares of bottom land; (r 5) [An estate of] 20[+x] hectares of land on high ground; (r 6) [a total of x+]40 hectares of land in Bet-šašširi. (r 7) [x hect]ares of orchard, 7 persons, Šamaš-[..., NN, ...]-ahu-iqiša; a total of 10 person[s ...] (Break) (r 10) [......] including [......], (under the authority) of Palil-ereš, Adad-nerari (III), [king of Assyria, contracted and] acquired…
Source: 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/P336252/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x GIŠ].⸢SAR? x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x GIŠ].SAR [x] ra? [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LÚ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] ia? di ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x gur? šu?⸣ [x x] / ú-piš-ma ina ŠÀ ⸢04? GÚ⸣.UN ⸢10 MA⸣.NA KUG.UD / TAv pa-an maš-šur—⸢EN?⸣—PAB il-⸢qi⸣ / ⸢kas-pu⸣ ga-am-mur ta-din / [É? x]+10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina ŠÀ ú-šal-li / [x x] 200+[x] ANŠE ina ŠÀ mu-le-e / [PAB x]+⸢40⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336252.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336252). 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/P336252/.
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