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SAA 20 010. Report on Rituals Performed on Shebat 17-21 (OrSP 22, 039)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) On the 17th day the king [entered] the Inner City. (2) On the 18th day the king went u[p] to the House of God. [He kissed the ground before Aššur. He performed a sheep offering] before Ninurta, Nusku and the gods of the House of God. He performed [one before the Conquerors (and)] the Golden Chariot. [He performed one] before [DN]. He performed one before Bel and Nabû. [He seated] the chanter[s] and retired to the side room. (6) The priest of Aššur circumambula[ted the House]. (7) The king made the chanters rise. He provided for the House of God. He gave presents to [the priest] and to the…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336309/
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Transliteration
UD 17-KAM LUGAL ina URU.ŠÀ—⸢URU⸣ [e-tar-ba 0] / UD 18-KAM MAN ina É—DINGIR e-⸢til⸣ [kaq-qar ina IGI aš-šur i-ti-šiq UDU.SISKUR] / ina IGI dMAŠ dPA.TÚG DINGIR-MEŠ É—DINGIR [ZI-aḫ ina IGI KUR-MEŠ-ti] / GIŠ.GIGIR KUG.GI ZI-aḫ ina IGI dx [x ZI-aḫ] / ina IGI dEN dPA ZI-aḫ LÚ*.ŠÚ-[MEŠ ú-se-šib] / ina É—ŠU.2 i-ta-šar LÚ*.SANGA šá aš-šur si-ḫir-⸢ti⸣ [É] / il-ti-bi MAN LÚ.⸢ŠÚ⸣-MEŠ us-sat-bi É—DINGIR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336309.
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/P336309/..
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/P336309/.
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