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SAA 12 075. Fragment of a Decree of Tiglath-Pileser III (NARGD 31)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Tiglath]-Pileser (III), [king of Assyria, ...] (r 2) [...] couch, wild bulls, house [......] (r 3) [...] this [obl]iga[tion] for [...-Inurta, Mutakkil-Aššur] (r 4) [and] T[uqu]n-mati, his daughter [......] (r 5) [......] he has establi[shed ......] (r 6) [...] wi[ne] until dis[tant] days [...] (r 7) [...]-Inurta, Mutakkil-Aššur, Tuqu[n-mati, their children and their d]escendants ...[...]. (r 9) Let [a futu]re [prince] among my sons whom Aššur nomi[nates (for kingship)] a[dd to] this [obli]gation; [may he not] take [away from it]. (r 11) By Aššur, [..., ..., Enli]l and the Ass[yrian] Ištar, [a future prince] shall not cast aside the wording of this docu[ment]. [The great gods] will he[ar] his [pra]yer. (Rest destroyed)
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/P336272/
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Transliteration
[mTUKUL-ti]—⸢A⸣—É.⸢ŠÁR.RA⸣ [LUGAL KUR—aš-šur x x x] / [x x x] ⸢GIŠ?⸣.né-mat-tu AM-MEŠ ⸢É?⸣ [x x x x x] / [ri]-⸢ik-su an*⸣-ni-ú a-na [mx—dMAŠ mmu-ták-kil—aš-šur] / [ù] MÍ.[tu-qu]-⸢un⸣—KUR DUMU.⸢MÍ*-šú*⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] ir-ku-[us? x x x] / [x x] ⸢GEŠTIN*⸣-[MEŠ] a-na UD-mi ṣa-[a-ti x x] / [mx]—⸢d?⸣MAŠ? m⸢mu-ták⸣-kil—aš-šur MÍ.tu*-qu-⸢un⸣—[KUR DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu] / [ù…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336272.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336272). 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/P336272/.
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