Position in chronology
SAA 12 083. Edict Appointing Nergal-apil-kumu’a (BaM24 239+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) [he g]ives. If the ki[ng or a future king se]nds into exile or [...s a ..., a ..., or an 'enterer'], (5) the k[ing] may not say [......]; (6) they belong to Aššur. The [palace] mana[ger responsible for ......] (7) among the travelling zarriqus [...... o]f [his] province (8) [......]s or the zarriqus (9) [......] he himself (10) will [.... The towns, fields and orchards of ...] the king's sons (11) [...... of C]alah that are in his province (12) that [...... he shall return] and not give them [t]o their governor. (13) He himself shall apportion the [......], clothing…
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/P336132/
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x]-⸢ḫu?-ru⸣-ma [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢SUM⸣-an šum-ma ⸢LUGAL⸣ [lu LUGAL EGIR?-ú x x x x x x x x x x x x x LÚ.e-rib-tu] / [ú]-šag-la-a lu-⸢u⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢LUGAL*⸣ lu la i-qab-bi [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ša aš-šur šu-nu LÚv.⸢GAL?⸣—[É.GAL ša UGU 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 P336132.
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/P336132/..
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/P336132/.
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