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SAA 12 024. Esarhaddon Grants Land to Provide Regular Offerings (STT 049)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To [......] (2) [my] la[dy ......] (4) [I], Esarhaddon, [great king, king of Assyria], son of Sennacherib, [likewise] gr[eat] king, [king of Assyria], pondered in my heart [......] (7) ...[...] they go [......] (8) [...] ... house [......] (9) to ...[......] (10) to ...[......] (r 1) field ...[......] (r 2) An estate of 30 hectares of fie[ld ......] (r 3) An estate of 10 hectares of field [......] (r 4) An estate of 6 hectares of orchard [......] (r 5) for the regular offerings to her, as the responsibility of [NN, ...], (r 6) Atar-yatê, the [...], (r 7) Sin-kenu-uṣur, the tiller, [I…
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/P338367/
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Transliteration
⸢a-na⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / be-el-[ti?-ia? x x x x x x] / qi-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / [ana]-ku mdaš-šur—PAB—AŠ [MAN GAL MAN KUR—aš-šur] / DUMU m30—PAB-MEŠ—⸢SU⸣ MAN ⸢GAL*⸣ [MAN KUR—aš-šur-ma] / áš-al-ma ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣-ía* ú-[x x x x] / ⸢ri? x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ a DU?-ku? [x x x x] / [x] ⸢gi* x É*⸣ [x x x x x] / a-na ⸢x x⸣ ú?-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / a-na ⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ⸢A*.ŠÀ x x⸣ [x x x x x x] / É 30 ANŠE…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P338367.
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/P338367/..
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/P338367/.
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