Position in chronology
SAA 12 023. Possibly Part of No. 21 (NARGD 35)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [and the]ir p[eople ......] (r 2) and their people [......] (r 3) the inhab[itants of ... ......] (r 4) from the town of Šabbu t[o ......] (r 5) I exempted (from taxes) [and ......] (r 6) for the mother of [Esarhaddon], (r 7) crown prince of the succe[ssion] palace [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-di UN]-⸢MEŠ-šú⸣-[nu x x x x x x x x] / ⸢a-di UN⸣-MEŠ-šú-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x x x x] / UN-MEŠ a-ši-⸢bu⸣-[ut x x x x x x x] / TAv URU.šab-bi a-[na? x x x x x] / ú-zak-ki-[ma x x x x x x x x] / a-na AMA-šú ša [mdaš-šur—PAB—AŠ] / ⸢DUMU—LUGAL ša É—re⸣-[du-ti 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 P336276.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336276). 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/P336276/.
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