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SAA 03 037. A Cultic Commentary (CT 15 43f)
Translation · reference
High confidence(2) [......] one [......when] Bel [defeated his] ene[mies]. (3) [The king who] goes to the well, stands at the well and [performs] a rite at the well, is [Marduk], who cast a spell against Illil in the Abyss, and consi[gned him] to the Anunnaki. (5) [... the fi]re which he kindles is Marduk, who in his youth [...] (6) [The magnates] who beat the clappers are the gods, his fathers and brothers, when they heard [...]. (7) [The king, wh]o kisses the ground in front of the gods, is Marduk, [whom] Mullissu lifted up in his youth, while they kissed him. (9) [The brazie]r which is lighted in front…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336144/
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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 en x⸣+[x x x x x ki-i] ⸢dEN a.a⸣-[bi-šú ik-mu-u] / [LUGAL šá a-na] ⸢PÚ*⸣ DU-ku ina ⸢UGU PÚ GUB⸣-zu dul-lu ina ⸢PÚ⸣ [e-pu-šu-ni] / [dAMAR.UTU šá] ⸢TU₆⸣ <$ana$> dEN.LÍL ina ZU.AB ŠUB-šu ana da-nun-na-ki ip-⸢qí⸣-[du-šu] / [x x i]-⸢šá⸣-tu ša i-qa-du-ni dAMAR.UTU šu-ú ša ina TUR-i-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [LÚ.GAL-MEŠ] šá kis-ki-la-te i-maḫ-ḫa-ṣu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336144.
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/P336144/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336144/.
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