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SAA 20 029. Initiation into the Secrets of Ištar of Heaven (KAR 139)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) When the (proper) time arrives, the sacrificer enters the Equ house. In the Equ house he proceeds to the right to the table before the Mouth-and-Tongue, and kindles with the torch in his hand the censer before the Mouth-and-Tongue. Grasping the torch with his left hand, he twice pours aromatics into the censer before the Mouth-and-Tongue. He breaks a bread cake upon the table, cools the eating-bowl twice, and twice performs a libation of beer into the pithos. (8) He scatters mixed aromatics into a portable censer, places a vagina of lead weighing half a mina before the Mouth-and-Tongue,…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P282610/
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Transliteration
si-mu-nu i-na ka-ša-di EN—UDU.SISKUR a-na É—e-qi er-rab / i-na É—e-qi a-na e-mi-it-ta a-na GIŠ.BANŠUR ša IGI dKA—EME / i-qar-rib i-na zi-qi ša qa-ti-šu še-eḫ-ta ša IGI dKA—EME / ú-ša-ḫa-az zi-qa i-na KAB-šú i-ṣab-bat 02-šú ŠEM-MEŠ / i-na še-eḫ-te a-na IGI dKA—EME i-šap-pak 01 NINDA la-aʾ-ta / i-na UGU GIŠ.BANŠUR i-ka-sa-ap 02-šú ma-kal-ta ú-ka-ṣa / 02-šu ma-qe-e ša KAŠ-MEŠ a-na DUG.KÍR ú-ga-mar…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P282610.
Attribution
Image: VAT 10320 + VAT 11537 (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany) — from Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P282610). source
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/P282610/.
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