Position in chronology
SAA 12 032. Fragment of Assurbanipal Grant
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) They are free from [quay and c]rossing [dues; ......]; they shall not pay [... and leather taxe]s; [...... his clients are e]xem[pt like he himself]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[i-na mi-ik-si ka-a-ri né-bi]-⸢ri⸣ za-ku-ú [o?] / [x x x x x x bit-qu KUŠ]-⸢MEŠ⸣ la id-⸢du⸣-[nu] / [x x x x ki-ma šá-a-šu-ma za]-ku-[ú]
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336726.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336726). 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/P336726/.
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