Position in chronology
SAA 12 056. Fragment of Land Grant or Schedule? (ADD 0726)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... and their] people (Break) (r 1) [......] and their people (r 2) [......] containing [...]. (r 3) [......], house, threshing-floor, garden, (r 4) [......] containing [...] (r 5) [...... ...]-epuš, [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x a-di?] ⸢UN-MEŠ⸣-[šú-nu] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ na-⸢ni?⸣ [x x] / [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] / [x x x] a-di UN-MEŠ-šú-nu / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu i-na ŠÀ-bi / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ É ad-ru GIŠ.SAR / [x x x]-šu i-na ŠÀ-bi / [x x mx]+⸢x⸣—DÙ-uš [x 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 P335598.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335598). 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/P335598/.
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