Position in chronology
SAA 12 093. Mannu-de’iq Donates his Son to Ninurta (ADD 0641)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) To Ninurta of Calah — (3) Mannu-de'iq, shield bearer of the eunuch, has presented Nabû-maqtu-šatbi, his son, (stamp seal impressions) (5) to Ninurta, the powerful, the mightiest of the gods, the warrior, for the life of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, to Ninurta of Calah as a gift. (10) Whoever takes him away from Ninurta, whether his prefect, his commander-of-fifty, his un[cle], his cousin, or [his ...], by force or through vi[ndication] — (15) May Ninurta defeat him with a merciless weapon. May Gula place a never-healing sore on his body. May Adad, canal inspector of heaven and earth,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na dNIN.URTA / šá qé-reb URU.kal-ḫa / mman-nu—de-iq EN—a-rit LÚ.SAG / mdPA—ŠUB—ZI DUMU-šú / a-na dMAŠ giš-ru dan-dan DINGIR-MEŠ / qar-du a-na TI.LA ZI-MEŠ / ša maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš / a-na [d]NIN.URTA šá qé-reb URU.kàl-ḫa / a-na ši-rik-ti iš-ruk / man-nu šá TAv IGI dNIN.URTA / ik-ki-mu-šú lu-u LÚ.GAR-⸢nu-šú⸣ / lu-u LÚv.GAL—50-šú* lu-u ⸢ŠEŠ⸣—[AD-šú] / lu-u DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šú lu-u [x x x x] / ina…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P335554.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335554). 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/P335554/.
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