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SAA 03 034. Marduk Ordeal (Assur Version) (KAR 143, 219; GPA 268)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The man who rages in his house ...... is Bel. He is] held fast [in the prison.] (2) [The man who on the 7th of Nisan ......]... [...... is the messenger of Šamaš and Adad]. He brings him out [of the prison.] (4) [......]:"Without the messenger of his lords, who would take him out?" (5) [The messenger] who goes and brings him out, (and who) rides [.......], goes to the (place of the) ordeal. (7) [The Akitu House where] he goes, is the house at the edge of (the place of) the ordeal; they question him there. (8) [Nabû, who] comes [from] Borsippa, comes to greet his father, who has been…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/Q009250/
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Transliteration
[LÚ ša ina É-šú i-ra-ʾa-bu-ú-ni x x x x dEN šu-ú ina É LÚ.ṣa-ab-te šu-tu] ⸢ka⸣-li / [LÚ ša UD 07-KÁM ša ITI.BARAG x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]-un-ni / [x x x x x x LÚ.A—KIN ša dUTU dIM šu-u-tu TAv É LÚ.ṣa-ab-te] ú-šé-ṣa-áš-šú / [x x x x x x x ma-a] ša* la ⸢LÚ.A—KIN⸣ ša EN-MEŠ-šú man-nu ú-še-ṣa-áš-šú / [LÚ.A—KIN šu-u ša] ⸢il⸣-lak-u-ni ú-še-ṣa-áš-šu-ni / [x x x x x i]-ra-kab-u-ni a-na ḫur-sa-an…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text Q009250.
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/Q009250/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/Q009250/.
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