Position in chronology
SAA 20 012. Calendar of Psalms and Lamentations in the Aššur Temple (AJSL 42, 110)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(beginning (about 13 lines) broken away) (1') [On the 19th day: “......,” a lamentation. “......]..., “ [an eršemma-lamentation to Aššur in Ešarra after] the sheep offering. (3') [On the 20th day: “......,” a lamentation. “O dragon] lying in ... grass,” [an eršemma-lamentation to Aššur in Ešarra] after the sheep offering. (5') [On the 21st day: “Lord, respected one of heaven and earth,” a lamentation]. “Important one, go about!,” [an eršemma-lamentation to Aššur in Ešarr]a after the sheep offering. “[...],” a lamentation. “You should not desert me!,” an eršemma-lamentation to Aššur after the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x] ne èm.⸢zu!⸣ / [ÉR.ŠÈM.MA ana AN.ŠÁR ina É.ŠÁR.RA EGIR] UDU.SISKUR.SISKUR / [1 UD 20-KAM x x x x x x x ÉR ušum] ú ki.sì.ga ná.a / [ÉR.ŠÈM.MA ana AN.ŠÁR ina É.ŠÁR.RA] ⸢EGIR⸣ UDU.SISKUR.SISKUR / [1 UD 21-KAM umun še.er.ma.al.la an.ki.a ÉR] dilmun.ki nigin.na / [ÉR.ŠÈM.MA ana AN.ŠÁR ina É.ŠÁR].⸢RA!⸣ EGIR UDU.SISKUR.SISKUR / [x] x x x ⸢ÉR! nam!⸣.[mu.un].⸢un!.šub⸣.bé.en…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P357085.
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/P357085/..
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/P357085/.
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