SAA 12 049. Fragment of Land Grant? (NARGD 38)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336279

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 12

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] Assyria (3) [......] (4) [......] its people (5) [...... labour-duty and cor]vée work (6) [......] as a favour (7) [......]... (8) [......]... (9) [...... th]eir [...] I established. (10) [......]... (11) [......]... (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x x]+⸢x iḫ?⸣ [x] / [x x x x x x KUR]—⸢AN?.ŠÁR?.KI?⸣ / [x x x x x x x] (blank) / [x x x x x x x] UN-MEŠ-šú / [x x x x il-ki? tup?-ši?]-ik-ki / [x x x x x x x x] a-na SIG₅-tim / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ki / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti / [x x x x x x x-šú?]-nu áš-kun / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢aš?⸣-šú / [x x x x x x x x x-šú?]-un

Scholarly note

Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336279.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336279). 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/P336279/.

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