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SAA 20 003. Rituals on Shebat 23-25 (CA pl. 5)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) On the 23rd day the king goes down to the House of God. He illumi[nates] the face. He perfo[rms the reg]ular offering before Aššur and Mullissu. He performs one [bef]ore the gods of heaven. (4) The king fills plates with spicy grains. He performs a sheep offering before them. He provides cooked meat and places the plates before Aššur and Mullissu. He offers salt on them. (6) [He seats] the chanters and retires (to the side room). At the time of making the chanters rise, the king makes the chanters rise. He [provides] for the House of God in the house [of Dagan]. (9) The king [goes…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336141/
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Transliteration
⸢UD⸣ 23-KÁM LUGAL ina ⸢É⸣—DINGIR ur-⸢rad⸣ zi-mu ú-šá-[an-mar] / [dà]-ri-ú i-na IGI aš-šur u dNIN.LÍL i-na-[saḫ] / [ina] IGI DINGIR-MEŠ šá AN-e i-na-saḫ it-qu-ra-a-[te] / ⸢TA*⸣ ḫi-in-ḫi-ni LUGAL ú-mal-la UDU.SISKUR ina IGI i-[na-saḫ] / síl-qu ep-pal it-qur-a-te ina IGI aš-šur u dNIN.LÍL [GAR-an] / MUN ina UGU-ḫi ú-qar-rab LÚ.UŠ.KU-MEŠ ú-[še-šab] / i-na-šar si-mi-in LÚ.UŠ.KU-MEŠ šat-⸢bu⸣-[e…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336141.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts (State Archives of Assyria, 20), 2017. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, 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/P336141/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336141/.
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