Position in chronology
SAA 12 007. Adad-nerari III Acquires Land in Bet-šašširi for a Grant (NARGD 05)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed or too fragmentary for translation) (r 1) has contracted and acquired (it) from Aššur-belu-uṣur for 4 talents and 10 minas of silver. The money is paid completely. (r 4) [An estate of x+]10 hectares of bottom land; (r 5) [An estate of] 20[+x] hectares of land on high ground; (r 6) [a total of x+]40 hectares of land in Bet-šašširi. (r 7) [x hect]ares of orchard, 7 persons, Šamaš-[..., NN, ...]-ahu-iqiša; a total of 10 person[s ...] (Break) (r 10) [......] including [......], (under the authority) of Palil-ereš, Adad-nerari (III), [king of Assyria, contracted and] acquired…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x GIŠ].⸢SAR? x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x GIŠ].SAR [x] ra? [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LÚ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] ia? di ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x gur? šu?⸣ [x x] / ú-piš-ma ina ŠÀ ⸢04? GÚ⸣.UN ⸢10 MA⸣.NA KUG.UD / TAv pa-an maš-šur—⸢EN?⸣—PAB il-⸢qi⸣ / ⸢kas-pu⸣ ga-am-mur ta-din / [É? x]+10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina ŠÀ ú-šal-li / [x x] 200+[x] ANŠE ina ŠÀ mu-le-e / [PAB x]+⸢40⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336252.
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/P336252/..
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/P336252/.
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