SAA 03 009. Psalm in Praise of Uruk (SAAB 01 40)

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336796

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

High confidence

(1) Uruk; I love ditto, I love Eanna, my nuptial chamber! (2) Ditto; I love (its) ziggurat, house of my pleasure! (3) Ditto; I love Babylon, my father's house! (4) Ditto; I love Esaggil, house of my veiling! (5) Ditto; I love Ehiligar, house of my joy! (6) Ditto; I love Borsippa, house of my kingship! (7) Ditto; I love Ezida, along with our Nabû! (8) Ditto; I love Šapazzu, along with Bel-ṣarbi! (9) Ditto; I love Cutha, along with Nergal! (10) Ditto; I love Der, along with Ištaran! (11) Ditto; I love Kiš and Ehursagkalamma! (12) Ditto; I love Sippar, along with Šamaš! (13) Ditto; I love the…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

⸢UNUG⸣.KI ÁG KI.MIN ÁG É.AN.NA É ḫa-mu-ti-ía / KI.MIN ÁG É.si-qu-ru-tu É la-le-ía / KI.MIN ÁG KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI É AD-ia! / KI.MIN ÁG É.sag-gíl É ⸢ka⸣-lu-li-ía / KI.MIN ÁG É.ḪI.LI.GAR É ḫa-du-ti-ia / KI.MIN ÁG BÁR.SIPA.KI ⸢É šar⸣-ru-ti-ía / KI.MIN ÁG É.ZI.DA a-di dna-bi-a-⸢ni⸣ / KI.MIN ÁG URU.šá-pa-zu a-di dLUGAL—GIŠ.ÁSAL / KI.MIN ÁG GÚ.DU₈.A.KI a-⸢di⸣ dU.GUR / KI.MIN ÁG URU.de-ru a-di d⸢KA⸣.DI /…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336796.

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/P336796/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336796/.

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