Position in chronology
SAA 12 010. Adad-nerari III Makes a Grant (NARGD 01)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria, overseer, son of Šamši-Adad (V), king of Assyria, overseer, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, likewise overseer. (two royal seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) Res[t ......] (r 2) And Bel-[Harran-... ......] (r 3) from the king and the crown prince [......] (r 4) before all the gods for [......] (r 5) as a good deed and favour [has received] for future da[ys]. (r 6) By Aššur, Šamaš and [Enlil], the Assyrian Ištar, Adad, Nergal, Ninurta and the Sebetti (Pleiades), all these great gods of Assyria, a future prince shall not cast aside the wording of this document. (r 11) Month Tebet (X), 26th day, eponym year of Mušallim-Inurta (792 B.C.).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mdIM—ERIM.GABA LUGAL KUR—aš-šur PA-lum / DUMU mšam-ši—dIM LUGAL KUR—aš-šur PA-lum / DUMU mdDI-ma-nu—MAŠ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur-ma PA-lum-ma / ⸢x x gi x⸣ [x x x x x x] / re-eḫ-⸢ta⸣-[x x x x x x x x] / ù mEN—URU.[KASKAL?—x x x x x x x] / TAv LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / a-na AŠ? IGI DINGIR-MEŠ ⸢DÙ.A.BI a-na⸣ [x x x (x x)] / a-na MUN da-mì-iq-te a-na EGIR UD-[me ma-ḫir?] / MU daš-šur dšá-maš ù…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336248.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336248). 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/P336248/.
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