Position in chronology
SAA 12 016. Fragment of Land Grant, Possibly Part of No. 15 (ADD 0861)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN], farmer, 4 [persons ......] (2) [N]N, 4 person[s ......] (3) Banî, horse tra[iner ......] (4) Bel-uballiṭ, 2 person[s ......] (5) Sasu, 7 person[s ......] (6) Mannu-ki-ahhe, [......] (7) Šibšê, [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x] LÚ.ENGAR 04 [ZI-MEŠ? x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-i 04 ZI-[MEŠ? x x x x] / [m]DÙ-i LÚ.GIŠ.[GIGIR x x x x] / mEN—TI.LA 02 ZI-[MEŠ? x x x x] / msa-a-su 07 ZI-[MEŠ? x x x x] / mman-nu—a-ki—PAB-MEŠ [x x x x] / [m]⸢ši?⸣-ib*-še-e LÚ.[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 P335702.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335702). 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/P335702/.
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