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SAA 03 011. Assurbanipal’s Coronation Hymn (LKA 031)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) May Šamaš, king of heaven and earth, elevate you to shepherdship over the four [region]s! (2) May Aššur, who ga[ve y]ou [the sceptre], lengthen your days and years! (3) Spread your land wide at your feet! (4) May Šerua extol [your name] to your god! (5) Just as grain and silver, oil, [the catt]le of Šakkan and the salt of Bariku are good, so may Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, be agreeable to the gods [of his] land! (8) May eloquence, understanding, truth and justice be given to him as a gift! (9) May [the people] of Assur buy 30 kor of grain for one shekel of silver! May [the peopl]e of…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336242/
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Transliteration
dUTU LUGAL AN-e u KI.TIM a-na SIPA-⸢ut⸣ [kib]-⸢rat⸣ erbe-tim liš-ši-ka / UD-MEŠ-ka MU.AN.NA-MEŠ-ka daš-šur na-⸢din*⸣ [GIŠ.PA]-⸢ka*⸣ lu-ur-rik / ina GÌR.2-ka KUR-ka [o] ru-up-piš / dEDIN-ú-a a-na DINGIR-⸢ka⸣ [MU-ka] lil-li / ki-i ŠE-im ù KUG.UD Ì.GIŠ [bu]-⸢ul?⸣ dGÌR / ù MUN ina URU.⸢ba*⸣-ri-ki [o] DÙG.GA-u-ni / maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš-šur ina ⸢UGU⸣ DINGIR-MEŠ-ni [ša] KUR-šú lu DÙG.GA / qa-bu-ú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336242.
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/P336242/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336242/.
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