Position in chronology
SAA 12 095. A Man Donates his two Nephews to Nabu
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) [Seal of ...]ayu, [owner of the people being g]iven. (seal impressions) (3) Urad-Issar and Nabû-hamatu[a], in all 2 sons of La-ṣahittu, his sister — (5) He has fed them and kept them alive, wea[ned them] and brought them up. He made [them] free from claims and g[ave them] to Nabû of Cal[ah], his lord. (10) Whoever claims to have autho[rity] over them or tries to take them from the control of Nabû by force — (13) May Nabû, scribe of the universe, make his name and his seed disappear from the land, [curse] him with a horrible curse that [cannot be undone] and [command] that [his] life not…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx-x-x]-a.a / [EN UN-MEŠ ta]-da-a-ni / mARAD—d15 mdAG—ḫa-mat-⸢ú⸣-[a] / PAB 02 DUMU-MEŠ MÍ.la—ṣa-ḫi-it-ti NIN-šú [o] / NINDA-MEŠ us-sa-kil ub-tal-li-⸢su⸣-[nu o] / TAv UGU zi-i-zi in-ta-⸢ta⸣-[aḫ] / ur-tab-bi-šú-nu ú-zak-ki-[šú-nu o] / a-na dAG ša qé-reb URU.kal-[ḫi] / EN-šú id-⸢din⸣ / man-nu šá UGU-ḫi-šú-nu i-šal-li-[ṭu-ni] / ù lu-u ina da-na-a-ni / TAv šap-la dAG ú-še-ṣa-šú-[nu o] / dAG…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336733.
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/P336733/..
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/P336733/.
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