Position in chronology
SAA 03 007. Assurbanipal’s Hymn to Ištar of Nineveh (ABRT 1 07-08)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) O palm tree, daughter of Nineveh, stag of the lands! (2) She is glorious, most glorious, the finest of the goddesses! Nineveh is set with bunbullu decorations, within which there is no [...]. (4) O praised Emašmaš, ...[...], in which dwells Ištar, the que[en of Nineveh]! (6) Like Aššur, she wears a beard and is clothed with brilliance [...]. The crown on her head g[leams] like the stars; the luminescent discs on her breasts shine like the sun! (9) O ziggurat, pride of Nineveh, which bears [awe-inspiring splendour]! (10) On the 16th of Tebet is her ..., she brightens Emašmaš: The lady of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢GIŠ*⸣.GIŠIMMAR bi-nat NINA.⸢KI⸣ [a].a-li KUR.KUR-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / šar-ḫat šu-ru*-ḫat el-let dIŠ.TAR-MEŠ [o] / NINA.KI bu-un-bu-ul-lu šá-kin ša ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢la⸣ [x x x] / É.MAŠ.MAŠ ša ta-na-da-a-ti ša qi-⸢ma⸣-[x x] / ša ina ŠÀ-bi-šú áš-ba-tú dIŠ.TAR šar-⸢ra⸣-[at NINA.KI] / a-ki AN.ŠÁR ziq-ni zaq-nat nam-ri-ri ḫal-⸢pat⸣ [x x x] / a-gu-u ina SAG.DU-šá a-ki kak-ka-bi ⸢na⸣-[ba-at] / ša-an-šá-na-a-ti ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P334925.
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/P334925/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334925/.
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