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SAA 12 078. Fragment of a Decree Concerning Distribution of Meat (NARGD 52)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336288

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 12
High confidence
(1) [NN, ..., mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, overseer]; [son of NN, mighty king, king of the world], king of [As]s[yria, overseer]; [son of NN, mighty king, king of the world], king of Assyr[ia, likewise overseer]. (4) [......, the chos]en one of En[lil ...]. (Space with royal seal impressions) (5) [......] from the sheep offerings of the fi[fth] day. (6) [......] its head, its belly, [its] liver. (7) [......] complete[ly] (8) [......]s of the go[d ...] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x x LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI PA-lum] / [x x x LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR]—⸢aš⸣-[šur.KI PA-lum] / [x x x LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ] LUGAL KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣.[KI PA-lum-ma] / [x x am-ru ni-iš] IGI.2-MEŠ dEN.[LÍL x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ TAv ŠÀ UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ ša UD 05-⸢KÁM⸣ / [x x x] ⸢SAG.DU-šú⸣ kar-ši-šú ka-bat-ti-[šú] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢a-na?⸣ gi-mir-ti-[šú] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-MEŠ ⸢DINGIR?⸣ [x x]

Scholarly note

Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336288.

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/P336288/..
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/P336288/.

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