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SAA 12 092. Four Men Donate a Bastard to Ninurta (ADD 0640)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of [Bel]-na'id, seal of [Nabû]-na'id, his brother, seal of Urad-Issar, son of Bel-na'id, seal of Šumma-[u]ssezib, son of Kanunayu — in all 4 men, owners of the man being dedicated to Ninurta of Calah. (cylinder seal impressions) (7) Dur-maki-Issar, son of Ra'imtu the sister of [Bel]-na'id and of Nabû-na'id, who gave birth to him during her prostitution — they have brought him up and presented him as a gift to Ninurta, their lord. For labour-duty or corvée work he is considered part of the temple of Ninurta. (13) Any future person: do not cast aside the wording of this document;…
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/P335553/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB m[EN]—⸢I⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB md[PA]—I ŠEŠ-šú / NA₄.KIŠIB mARAD—d⸢15⸣ DUMU mEN—I / NA₄.KIŠIB mšum-ma—⸢us?⸣-se-zib DUMU mITI.AB-a.a / PAB 04 LÚ-MEŠ-e EN LÚ / a-na dNIN.URTA šá qé-reb URU.kal-ḫa še-lu-ʾi / mBÀD—ma-ki—[d]15 DUMU MÍ.ÁG-ti / NIN-šú-nu šá m[EN]—I ša mdPA—I / ša ina ḫa-rim-ti-šá tu-šab-šú-u-ni / ur-tab-bi-ʾu-šú a-na dNIN.URTA EN-šú-nu / a-na ši-rik-ti is-sa-ar-ku / a-na il-ki…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P335553.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335553). 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/P335553/.
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