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SAA 03 001. Assurbanipal’s Hymn to Aššur (ABRT 1 32-33)
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High confidence(1) The exceedingly great one, king of the gods, the omniscient; venerable, surpassing, the Illil of the gods, he who decrees the fates! (3) Aššur, exceedingly great lord, omniscient; venerable, surpassing, the Illil of the gods, he who decrees the fates! (5) [Let me magn]ify Aššur, the superlatively strong, the king of the gods, the lord of the lands! [Let me procla]im his greatness, magnify his praise! (7) Let me proclaim the fame [of Aš]šur, let me extol his name; let me glorify the praise of [the god] who dwells in Ehursaggalkurkurra! (9) Let me mention the [superlatively strong one], let…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334930/
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Transliteration
šur-bu-ú e-tel DINGIR-MEŠ mu-du-ú ka-la-ma / kab-tu šu-tu-qu dEN.LÍL.LÁ DINGIR-MEŠ mu-šim ši-ma-a-ti / AN.ŠÁR EN šur-bu-ú mu-du-ú ka-la-ma / kab-tu šu-tu-qu dEN.LÍL.LÁ DINGIR-MEŠ mu-šim ši-ma-a-ti / [lu]-⸢šar*⸣-bi AN.ŠÁR dan-dan-nu e-tel DINGIR-MEŠ be-el ma-ta-a-ti / [lu-šá]-⸢pi⸣ nàr-bé-e-šú ta-nit-ta-šú lu-uš-tar-ra-aḫ / [ša AN].ŠÁR lu-šá-pi zi-kir-šú lu-šar-bi šum-šú / [DINGIR a]-šib…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P334930.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Alasdair Livingstone, Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea (State Archives of Assyria, 3), 1989. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2019-20, 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/P334930/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334930/.
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