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SAA 03 032. The Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince (ZA 43 1)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...... who ......] an office to [...] (2) [......]... [he frequented] the house of the examiners of visceral omina, taking councel with them; [......]... eyes [... he st]ood before the wise bookkeepers, who guard the secret of their lords. (4) [......] he appointed together the governors and magnates [...] and strengthened the watch over his property. (5) [He ......] Dada, his cook, mountain beer as much as there was, as much as the sun shines on; he made him responsible for his subjects, but as for himself, he did not consult with his heart; he forgot the divine splendour and [......…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P337164/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] pi-qit-tu a-na [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni-⸢ni⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] a-ḫa-⸢x⸣+[x]-su? É mu-ḫi-iṭ ti-ra-[ni x x x]-ma? šu-ú im-tal-[lik] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x] IGI?.2 [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢ziz?⸣ IGI? ša-as-su-ki en-qu-ú-ti na-ṣi-ir [pi-riš]-ti be-lí-šú-⸢un?⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ pa-an LÚ.⸢GAR?⸣-MEŠ [ù]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P337164.
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/P337164/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P337164/.
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