Position in chronology
SAA 12 085. Adad-nerari Adds the Land of Hindanu to the Territory of Raṣappa (AAA 20 105+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Adad-nerari (III)], [gre]at [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria]; [son of Šamš]i-Adad (V), mighty king, king of the [world, ki]ng of [Assyria]; [son of Shal]maneser (III), king of the four quarters; (4) has assigned the [...] of the land of Hindanu to Pal[il-ereš], governor of Raṣappa, and [has ...ed (it)] to him. (6) No one shall change (anything) concerning (this) [......]. (7) The governor of Raṣappa shall rule the pref[ect of Hindanu]; he is his lord; he is [his ...; the prefect] is his agent. (9) No one [at any time in the future shall make any] claim against…
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/P336732/
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Transliteration
[m10—ERIM.GABA MAN] ⸢GAL⸣-ú MAN dan-⸢nu⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR—[aš.KI] / [DUMU mdUTU]-⸢ši⸣—dIM MAN dan-nu ⸢MAN⸣ [ŠÚ] ⸢MAN⸣ KUR—[aš.KI] / [DUMU mdDI]-ma-nu—MAŠ MAN kib-rat erbe-[tim?] / [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢KUR⸣.ḫi-in-da-nu ina ŠU mdIGI.⸢DU⸣—[KAM] / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAR.KUR KUR.ra-ṣa-pa im-tu-nu ina ŠU-šú ⸢il⸣-[x-x] / man-ma ina UGU-ḫi ⸢la⸣ i-⸢ni?-e? x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / LÚv.GAR.KUR KUR.ra-ṣa-⸢pa⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336732.
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/P336732/..
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/P336732/.
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