Position in chronology
SAA 12 071. Decree of Regular Offerings for the Aššur Temple by Adad-nerari III (NARGD 46)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(1) [Adad-nerari (III)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]; [son of Šamši-Adad (V)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]; [son of Shalmaneser (III)], representative of Enlil, [overseer]. (4) [When Adad-nerari (III)] instituted the regular offerings of Aššur, (and) [entrusted] them to [NN, the ...]; from the towns of the county of Burali, the county of Arbela, the count[y of ...] — (6) [The chief ...]: 50 carrying-sticks of pomegranates, 1 sheep for the kimru (offering) before [..., ......, x] wineskins, 4 shovels with their 'donkeys' [...], [x cups o]f oil for the provisions of the boatmen…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mdIM—ERIM.GABA] GAR dBE [PA-lum] / [DUMU mdšam-ši—dIM] GAR dBE [PA-lum] / [DUMU mdDI-ma-nu—SAG] GAR dBE [PA-lum] / [ina UD-me mdIM—ERIM.GABA] SAG gi-né-e ša aš-šur iš-šu-ni a-na [mx x x] / [LÚ.x x x ip-qí-du-ni] TAv ŠÀ-bi URU-MEŠ-ni ša KUR.ḫal-zi URU.bu-ra-li KUR.ḫal-zi URU.arba-ìl KUR.ḫal-⸢zi⸣ [URU.x x] / [x x x LÚ.GAL?—x x x]-MEŠ 50 GIŠ.at-ḫu-su ša GIŠ.NU.ÚR.MA-MEŠ 01 UDU a-na kim-ri a-na IGI…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336283.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Laura Kataja and Robert M. Whiting, Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (State Archives of Assyria, 12), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336283/..
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/P336283/.
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