Position in chronology
SAA 12 012. Fragment of Adad-nerari III Grant (NARGD 04)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) [Adad-nerari (III), king of Assyria], overseer, [son of Ša]mši-Adad (V), overseer, [son of] Shalmaneser (III), likewise overseer. (three royal seal impressions) (Break) (r 2) [......], eponym year of [NN].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mdIM—ERIM.GABA] PA-lum / [DUMU m]⸢šam-ši⸣—dIM PA-lum / [DUMU md]DI-ma-nu—MAŠ PA-lum-ma / [(x x) x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x (x x)] / [x x x x] ⸢ki?⸣ [x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lim-mu [mx x x x]+⸢x⸣
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336251.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336251). 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/P336251/.
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