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SAA 03 004. Nanaya Hymn of Sargon II (ABRT 1 54-55)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [...... she holds in her hand] the naked sword, [emblem of Nergal], the pointed axe, appropriate to the [Pleiades]. (i 4) On (her) right and left battle is arrayed. (i 5) The foremost of the gods, (she) whose play is battle, who goes ahead of the brotherhood of the Seven (demons) — (i 7) Skilled musicians are seated before her, players of the lyre, the small harp, the clapper, the flute, the oboe, the long (pipes). (i 10) The kurgarrûs ease her heart with spindles, whiplashes, and with sweet [...]s. (i 12) [...]... of loveliness of ...... (i 13) they are clad in…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334931/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢i?⸣ nu an ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / ⸢nam⸣-ṣa-ru pe-tu-ú ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ⸢qul*⸣-mu-ú zaq-tu si-mat d[se-bet-ti] / im-na u šu-me-la su-ud-dur tam-ḫa-ru / a-šá-rit-ti DINGIR-MEŠ šá me-lul-šá qab-lum / a-li-kàt maḫ-ri šu-ut se-bet at-ḫe-e / LÚ.NAR-MEŠ pal-ke-e ma-ḫar-šá kam-su / šu-ut GIŠ.ZÀ.MÍ še-bi-ti u ka-an-za-bi / šá ma-li-li ṣi-in-ni-ti u ar-ka-a-[ti] / ⸢LÚ⸣.KUR.GAR.RA-MEŠ <ina> pa-laq*-qí…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P334931.
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/P334931/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334931/.
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