Position in chronology
SAA 20 031. The Banquet of [DN] (BBR pl. 60)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(beginning broken away) (2') [...... a muk]arrisu-pan of oil (3') [......] pours on a beer vat (4') [......] pushes (it) with his feet (5') [......] throws [... on] the tab[le], and goes (away). (6') [......] The singer intones before him: “The strongest one of the gods,” and goes (away). (7') [...] ... You throw ... on it and place the mukarrisu on it. You fill a pail of [oil] with water, place it atop the chair in the middle of the doorway, and let it bathe in sunshine. (10') You set up a table before the chair. You place three litres of grain on the table, half of it groats, half of it…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x] / [x x x mu]-⸢kar⸣-ri-su ša Ì-[MEŠ] / [x x x] ina UGU DUG.pi-ʾi BAL-⸢qí⸣ / [x x x] ina GÌR.2-šú i-da-ʾi-ip / [x x x x x x] GIŠ!.BI.⸢BUR!⸣ ŠUB.ŠUB-⸢di⸣ il-lak / [x x x x x x] LÚ.NAR ⸢dan!⸣-dan DINGIR-MEŠ ina IGI-šú i-za-mur il-lak / [x x x] ⸢x x di! lu? x⸣-tú ina UGU-ḫi ta-kar-ra-ar / [mu]-kar-ri-su ina UGU-ḫi ta-šak-kan / DUG.kal-⸢lu Ì-MEŠ⸣ A-MEŠ DIRIG-ma ina SAG…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P397607.
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/P397607/..
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/P397607/.
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