Position in chronology
SAA 12 001. Adad-nerari III Grants Land to Aššur to Provide Offerings (KAV 094)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) Seal of Aššur and Ninurta, seal of God the k[ing, ...] ... [......], which cannot be [contested]. (2) Adad-nerari (III), overseer, son of Šamši-Adad (V), [overseer], son of Shalma[nese]r (III), [likewise overseer]. (3) The towns, fields, buildings, orchards and people of [Šamaš-naṣ]ir, eunuch of Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, treasurer of Aššur, belonging to his eunuchship — Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, for the pres[ervation of] his [life] has exempted them and gi[ven] them to Aššur, his lord. (5) I have taken an area of 1,000 hectares of land in the province of the Inner City…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB da-šur₄ ù dNIN.URTA NA₄.KIŠIB DINGIR ⸢ru?⸣-[bé-e x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x ša la pa-qa-ri?] / mdIM—ERIM.GABA PA-lum DUMU mdUTU-ši—dIM PA-lum DUMU mdDI-ma-[nu]—⸢MAŠ⸣ [PA-lum-ma] / URU-MEŠ A.ŠÀ-MEŠ É-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ ù UN-MEŠ ša m[dUTU—PAB?]-ir LÚv.SAG ša mdIM—ERIM.GABA MAN KUR—aš-šur LÚv.IGI.DUB ša ⸢aš-šur⸣ / ša LÚv.SAG-ti-šú <$x x x$> mdIM—ERIM.GABA MAN KUR—aš-šur a-na ⸢TI⸣.[LA…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P285569.
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/P285569/..
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/P285569/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early witness to systematic administrative notation at Kish. Its signs and numerals can be catalogued, but that does not establish a full translation or prove that it is the world's first writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.