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SAA 20 009. Report on Rituals Performed by Assurbanipal in Shebat-Adar, 650 (CA pl .3-4)
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High confidence(i 1) [The n]ew [rites] which [Ass]urbanipal, king of Assyria, [perfor]med from the 16th [of Shebat] (XI) until the 10th of Adar (XII), eponym year of Bel-Harran-šadû’a (650) . (i 5) On the [1]6th [day]: the (triumphal) entry into the city. Šerua, [K]ippat-mati and Tašmetu went to the palace and entered the house of Dagan. [He of]fered salt on the t[able] and poured out a libation bowl ...[...]. (i 9) The pries[t]s enter[ed] it from the front side of the city gate and came as far as the front side of the main room. (i 11) [On the 18th day] the king came do[w]n to the House of God. (i 12) He…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336139/
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[GARZA-MEŠ eš]-⸢šu⸣-ti šá TA* UD 16-KÁM / [ša ITI.ZÍZ] ⸢a-di⸣ UD 10-KÁM ša ITI.ŠE / [maš]-⸢šur⸣—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš-šur / [DÙ-uš]-u-ni lim-mu mEN—KASKAL—KUR-u-a / [UD] ⸢16⸣-KÁM e-rab—URU dše-ru-u-a / [d]GAM—KUR dLÁL ana ŠÀ É.GAL DU-ka / ina É—dda-gan ⸢TU-ba⸣ MUN ina UGU GIŠ.⸢BANŠUR⸣ / [uq]-⸢ṭar⸣-rib pa-gul ⸢ug-da⸣-mir ⸢ú!⸣-ṣab-⸢bit?⸣ / [x x] TA* IGI KÁ.GAL LÚ.SANGA-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [ina ŠÀ]-bi-šú TU EN IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336139.
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/P336139/..
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/P336139/.
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