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SAA 20 025. Ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for the Lady-of-the-River (BA 05, 689 + BBR pl. 61)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) [Tukulti-Ninurta (I), king of Assyria, performed and] insti[tuted the (following) rites for the Lady-of-the-River], his [g]od. (2) [When] you are to perform [the nāṭu-ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for the Lady-of]-the-River: (3) [......] perform [this ritual before the Lady-of-the-River] (and) his seed will solidify! (4) [You erect a tent, place its opening before Šamaš, and] place a chair at the side of the tent. [You lay clean red wool upon it, (and) place a bowl of sweet oil, aromatics], juniper, and a tuft of red wool on it. (6) [You set up a table before Šamaš, and] place [a censer,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[e-pu-uš-ma mtukul-ti—MAŠ MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI par-ṣi a-na GAŠAN—ÍD] ⸢DINGIR⸣-šú ú-ki-in-[ma SUM-in] / [e-nu-ma na-a-ṭu ša mtukul-ti—dMAŠ a-na GAŠAN]—ÍD a-na e-pe-še-⸢i!-ka!⸣ / [x x x x x x x x dul-lu an-na-a ina IGI GAŠAN—ÍD šal]-⸢lim!⸣ e-pu-uš NUMUN-šú i-ka-⸢ṣar⸣ / [TÚG.maš-ku-nu ina GÚ ÍD SÌG-aṣ KÁ-šú a-na IGI dUTU GAR-an] GIŠ.GU.ZA ina i-di TÚG.maš-ki-ni ŠUB-di / [SÍG.ḪÉ.MED eb-bu ina UGU-ḫi…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P397118.
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/P397118/..
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/P397118/.
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