Position in chronology
SAA 12 054. Fragment of Aššur-etel-ilani Type Land Grant (ADD 0750)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...... ...]...ru [and his people, ......] (3) [......], Ahû'a-amur a[nd his people, ......] (4) [......], Adda-sagab a[nd his people, ......] (5) [......], Ṣibit-ali a[nd his people, ......] (6) [......], Šamaš-le'i a[nd his people, ......] (7) [......, ...]bu an[d his people, ......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-ru [a-di UN-MEŠ-šú x x] / [x m]PAB-u-a—a-mur ⸢a⸣-[di UN-MEŠ-šú x x] / [x] mdIM—sa-gab a*-[di UN-MEŠ-šú x x] / [x] mṣi-bit—URU a-[di UN-MEŠ-šú x x] / [x] mdUTU—ZU a*-[di UN-MEŠ-šú x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-bu a-⸢di*⸣ [UN-MEŠ-šú 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 P335614.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335614). 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/P335614/.
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