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SAA 20 017. Rituals in the House of the Assyrian Ištar (PKT 19 + OrSP 23, 115)
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High confidence(1) At the da[wn] of the [xth] day [o]f Nisan (I), the king rises early in the m[orni]ng and goes to the house of the Assyrian Ištar. He per[for]ms a sheep offering before [Tašmetu], before Belat-šarri, before Ber, before Uraš, and before Kutatati. [The king] (then) goes straight to the palace. He does (all) this in the morning. (7) [At the pa]ssing of the eve[ning] the king puts on the jewellery and goe[s] to the house of the Assyrian Ištar. The king halts in the courtyard. The priest of [Aššur pours out] one libation bowl of wa[ter and another one [of ...] in the courtyard before the…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336314/
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Transliteration
ina ⸢kal!⸣-la-[ma]-⸢ri⸣ ša UD [x-KÁM] ⸢ša⸣ ITI.BARAG / LUGAL i-⸢ši-ar⸣ ina É—d⸢15⸣—[aš]-⸢šur⸣-i-⸢tú⸣ DU-ka / UDU.SISKUR ina IGI ⸢d⸣[LÁL?] ⸢i-na-saḫ⸣ / ina IGI dGAŠAN—LUGAL! ina ⸢IGI dbe!⸣-er ina IGI dIB / ina IGI dku-ta-ta!-te i-na-saḫ / [LUGAL] ⸢ina⸣ É.GAL i-na-šar an-ni-u i-ši-ar / ⸢ba?⸣-[du ina] ⸢e?-ta?⸣-qi LUGAL du-ma-qi ina UGU-ḫi-šú ÍL / i-na É—[d]⸢15⸣—aš-šur-i-tú DU-[ka] / LUGAL ina TÙR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336314.
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/P336314/..
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/P336314/.
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