Position in chronology
SAA 12 030. Assurbanipal Exempts a Chamberlain from Taxes (SAAB 02 104)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (r 10) [whom Aššur nominat]es (for kingship), do good and show fav[our to them and their seed]. They are [friends and favourites of the king the]ir [lord. And if one of them has s]inned [against the king his lord, or] lifte[d his hand against g]od, do not go [on the word of a ho]stile [informer], [but investigate, and establish whether] that statement is true. Do not act [negligen]tly [against the seal], but impose [punish]ment upon him [in accordance with his guilt]. (r 19) [When NN, the] chamberlain, [goes to his f]at[e in my palace wi]th a go[od] repute, [they shall b]ur[y him where he dictates, and he shall lie where it was his wish]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ša AN.ŠÁR i-nam-bu]-⸢ú⸣ zi-⸢kir⸣-[šú] / [x x x x NUMUN-šú-nu ṭa-ab-tu] ⸢SIG₅⸣-tu e-pu-⸢uš⸣ / [EN—MUN EN—SIG₅-tim ša LUGAL EN-šú]-nu šu-nu / [šúm-ma x x a-na LUGAL EN-šú] ⸢iḫ⸣-ti-ṭi / [ù lu-u ŠU.2-su i-na ŠÀ-bi] ⸢DINGIR⸣ it-tu-⸢bíl⸣ / [i-na UGU pi-i ša a-kil kar-ṣi za]-ʾi-ra-ni la tal-lak / [ša-ʾa-al ke-e-in šúm-ma a]-bu-tu ša-li-in-tu ši-i / [TAv pa-an un-qí na-di a]-ḫi la ta-ra-áš-ši / [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 P336798.
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/P336798/..
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/P336798/.
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