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SAA 03 016. Elegies Mourning the Death of Tammuz (STT 360)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The age]nt, the Babylonian merchant, [who] gave his word, has left behind his donkeys! The dog has been killed at the side of our sheep! (4) The agent, the Babylonian me[rchant], who gave his word, has left behind his donkeys! The dog has been killed at the [sid]e of our sheep! (7) Watch the brother of [my] heart ...[...], watch the [......] our daughter! [...]... [...... does not] pass. (10) [We let out] a scream [...... at] the onset of evening, as [......]... us, as [...... the ...] our daughter. (13) He has made the house of my father [into a ...]...! I ... his ... like the [temple]…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P338675/
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Transliteration
[mu-pi-šu]-u LÚv.DAM.QAR-u [KÁ].DINGIR-a.a / [ša] ⸢KA⸣ SUM-[ni] ú-sa-ri-⸢ḫi⸣-a ANŠE.NÍTA-MEŠ-šú / UR.KU-ú GAZ-⸢ku⸣ qa-ni [ṣe]-ni-ni / mu-pi-šu-u LÚv.⸢DAM⸣.[QAR] ⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR-a.a / ša KA SUM-ni [ú-sa-ri]-⸢ḫi⸣-a ANŠE.NÍTA-<MEŠ>-šú / UR.KU-ú i-du-ku [qa]-⸢ni⸣ ṣe-ni-ni / ŠEŠ ⸢ŠÀ? uš x x⸣+[x x (x)] ⸢a?-ki⸣ du-gul / [du]-gul i-mu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣-te-e DUMU.MÍ-ni / [x] kal mu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] ⸢e-ti⸣-iq /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P338675.
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/P338675/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P338675/.
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