Position in chronology
SAA 12 045. Fragment of Land Grant (NARGD 17)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... x+]10 hectares of fi[eld], (2) [...... x] hundred and sixty hectares of fi[eld], (3) [......]... 20 hectares [of field], (4) [......]... 30 hectares [of field], (5) [...] ... [...] 50 he[ctares of field], (6) [......]... 100 hectares [of field], (7) [......]... 20 hectares [of field], (8) [......] zarri[...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x]+10 ANŠE A.[ŠÀ] / [x x x x x x x x]-me-60 ANŠE A.[ŠÀ] / [x x x x x x x x]-a 20 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ] / [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] pi? 30 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ] / [x x]-⸢im⸣-me-⸢e⸣ [x x] 50 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ] / [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x]-⸢ni⸣-e 01-me ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ] / [x x x x x x x x]-MEŠ-ni 20 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ] / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢LÚ⸣.za-ri-[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 P336262.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336262). 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/P336262/.
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