Position in chronology
SAA 12 055. Fragment of Aššur-etel-ilani Type Land Grant (ZA 73 04)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN a]nd [his] people (2) [NN] and [his] people (3) [NN] and [his] people (4) [NN an]d [his] people (5) [NN an]d [his] peo[ple] (6) [NN an]d [his people] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x a]-⸢di UN-MEŠ⸣-[šú] / [x x x] a-di UN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / [x x x] a-di UN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / [x x x a]-⸢di⸣ UN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / [x x x a]-⸢di UN⸣-[MEŠ-šú] / [x x x a]-⸢di⸣ [UN-MEŠ-šú]
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P337169.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P337169). 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/P337169/.
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