Position in chronology
SAA 12 057. Fragment of Land Grant or Schedule? (ADD 0721)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......]...[......; an estate of] 2 decares of field [......] (2) [......] and his people [......] (3) [......] in [its] entirety [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢su x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x É] 2(bán)? A.ŠÀ [x x x] / [x x x a]-di UN-[MEŠ-šú x x x] / [x x x x x] a-na gi-mir-[ti-šú x x x] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ak ⸢x⸣+[x 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 P335594.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335594). 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/P335594/.
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