NARGD 20 (P336265)
Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | NARGD 20 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336265 |
| Museum no. | BM 098647 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Official or display |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa12 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [NN, king of Assyri]a, e[xempted (from taxes) and] sealed [with his royal seal, which is not to be altered], and gave it [to NN, cohort commander of the chief eun]uch, the son of Babilayu. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'–r 7'7' | The corn taxes [of these fields, ... and people shall not be collected, the straw taxe]s shall not be gathered. [These people] shall not be called up [for labour and corvée service or for the le]vy of the land; [they] are free [from quay, crossing and gate dues] on land or water; |
| Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'–r 9'9' | [in all the temples ......]; [they are] fr[ee from "boat and cr]ossbar"; |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—NIR.GAL₂—DINGIR-MEŠ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur]{⸢ki} u₂⸣-[zak-ki-ma] | |
| 2' | [a-na {1}x x x x {lu₂}GAL—ki-ṣir {lu₂}GAL—ki-ṣir ša {lu₂}GAL]—⸢SAG⸣ {lu₂}GAL]—⸢SAG⸣ DUMU {1}⸢KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}a⸣.a | |
| 3' | [ina {na₄}KIŠIB LUGAL-u₂-ti-šu₂ ša la šu-un-ne₂-e] ik-nu-uk-ma id-din-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 4' | [ša A.ŠA₃-MEŠ x x x x x x x x x x] {še}nu-sa-hi-ši-na | |
| 5' | [la in-na-su-hu {še}IN.NU-ši]-⸢na⸣ la iš-šab-ba-⸢aš₂⸣ | |
| 6' | [u₃ UN-MEŠ šu-a-tu-nu ina il-ki tup-šik-ki di]-⸢ku⸣-ut KUR la ir-red-du-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 7' | [ina mi-ik-si ka-a-ri ne₂-bi-ri KA₂.GAL] ⸢i-na KUR-e u⸣ {id₂}hi-ri-ti za-⸢ku⸣ | |
| 8' | [ina E₂.KUR-MEŠ DU₃-ši-na x x x x x ina {giš}MA₂ {giš]}⸢hu⸣-u₂-qu ⸢za⸣-[ku] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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