Position in chronology
SAA 12 058. Fragment of Aššur-etel-ilani Type Land Grant (ADD 0736)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... of fie]ld, 1 barnyard in the t[own ...], (2) [......] of field in the town [...], (3) [......] field in Šabarme [...], (4) [...... of fiel]d in Issete, Harmaku [and his people], (5) [Ib]ni-šarru an[d his people], (6) [...]-šalhi an[d his people], (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x A].⸢ŠÀ?⸣ 01 É tal-pi-tú ina ⸢URU?⸣.[x x x] / [x x x A].ŠÀ ina URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x A].ŠÀ ina URU.šá-bar-me ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x A].⸢ŠÀ?⸣ ina URU.01-te mḫar-ma-⸢ki⸣ [a-di UN-MEŠ-šú? x x x] / [x x x mib?]-⸢ni⸣—LUGAL a-⸢di⸣ [UN-MEŠ-šú x x x] / [x x x mx-x]-⸢šal?⸣-ḫi a-⸢di⸣ [UN-MEŠ-šú x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x 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 P335605.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335605). 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/P335605/.
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