Position in chronology
SAA 12 019. Sargon Renews a Land Grant of Adad-nerari to Provide Offerings for Aššur (NARGD 32)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... who l]oves his princeliness, (3) [...... wh]ose m[ind], Nanna, the [...]..., has t[urned] to (re)settling the wasteland. (5) The true king [......] whose lordship the goddess Ninmena[nna ha]s magnified, that he may not oppress the weak, and may cause the feeble to prosper. (7) The town of Maganuba, [a ...... c]ity, which [lies] like a fortress in the district of Nineveh, [......] its woods, in its irrigated fields [...... the] plough was left idle, in its meadow lan[d ......] the lives of the people of Nine[veh], which former princes [who had] exercised [the…
Source: 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/P336273/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x]-mu? [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ti na [x x x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x ša?] ⸢ir⸣-ʾa-a-⸢mu⸣ NUN-⸢ti⸣-[šu? (x x x)] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ bi [x x x x x] ⸢ša?⸣ a-na šu-šu-ub ni-du-tú ⸢uz⸣-[ni-šu?] / [o?] ú-⸢ki?⸣-[in-nu? x x x] kul ni ši dŠEŠ.KI [x x] / ⸢LUGAL⸣ ki-⸢i-nu⸣ [x x x] ša a-na la ḫa-bal en-še šu-šur la le-⸢ʾi⸣-[i] / dNIN.MEN.⸢AN⸣.[NA (x x x) ú]-šá-te-ru be-lut-su / URU.ma-ga-nu-ba ⸢URU⸣ [ša? x x x x]-te i-na…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336273.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336273). 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/P336273/.
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