Position in chronology
SAA 12 090. Assurbanipal Recovers a Stolen Village (IAsb pl.21)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For Sin, foremost of heaven and earth, [......], the honored Namraṣit, power without equal, [......], the compassionate lord who [...]s to the king who is pious to him, [......] — (4) I am Assurbanipal, great king, mighty king, ki[ng of the world, king of Assyria], who heeds his weighty command a[nd ......]. (6) Il-yabi, the eu[nuch of ...], who a village in its entirety amounting to such and such [an area of land and orchards ...] to Sin residing in Elumu o[f his own accord donated as a votive offering] for the preservation of the life of the ki[ng and set up a stele]; afterwards, his…
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/P336174/
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Transliteration
a-na d30 a-šá-rid AN-e u KI.[TIM x x x x x x x x x x] / DUGUD dAŠ.ÍM.BABBAR e-muq la šá-na-an [x x x x x x x x x x x] / EN rém-nu-u šá a-na LUGAL mut-⸢nin⸣-ni-šú i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x] / ana-ku mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ-A MAN GAL-u MAN ⸢dan*⸣-nu* ⸢MAN*⸣ [ŠÚ MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI] / ša a-na zik-ri-šú DUGUD u-taq-qu-⸢ma*⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / mDINGIR—ia-a-bi (blank) LÚ.⸢SAG?⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ša URU.ŠE…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336174.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336174). 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/P336174/.
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