Position in chronology
SAA 12 062. Possibly Part of No. 60 (ADD 0748)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) [......] in the town of Diati; [......] (4) [......] in Til-harrapin[a; ......] (5) [......], fields and people in Kar-Is[sar; ......] (6) [...... x hectares of fi]eld, 1 viney[ard, ......] (7) [...... in] the town of [...]; ... [......] (8) [...... x he]ctares of field in Šarru-iddin[a; ......] (9) [......] ... Diqukin[a ......] (10) [......] 2 tillers [......] (11) [......] ... [......] (Rest destroyed)
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/P335613/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ x x ni [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ URU.di-a-ti? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina URU.⸢DU₆—ḫar-ra-pi?-na⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] A.ŠÀ-MEŠ UN-MEŠ ina URU.KAR—d15 [x x x x] / [x x ANŠE A].ŠÀ 01.en GIŠ.SAR GIŠ.til-[lit x x x x] / [x x x x ina?] URU.⸢x⸣+[x x]+x PAB AŠ* MAN* ga* [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina URU.LUGAL—SUM-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢x KUR⸣.di-qu-ki-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢02 LÚ⸣.qa-tin-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢LÚ?.si?-x⸣+[x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P335613.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335613). 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/P335613/.
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