Position in chronology
SAA 12 021. Fragment of Land Grant of Sennacherib (NARGD 34)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) Sennach[erib, ......], (2) maker of the statue of Aš[šur, ......] (royal seal impression) (Break) (r 2) Month Nisan (I), [......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢md30⸣—[PAB-MEŠ—SU x x x x x x] / e-piš ṣa-lam AN.[ŠÁR x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / ITI.BARAG [x x x x 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 P336275.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336275). 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/P336275/.
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