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SAA 20 037. Temple Service Rites for All Assyria (PKT 10-11)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [When you are to provide for the House of Aššur, (and) to strew salt], you say: “[Aššur and Mullissu, Adad and Mašmaš, accep]t [life]!” (3) [When] you are to swing [the purification device over the table, you say: “The hand is released.” You repeat it] and swing it in the centre of the house, [saying: “The centre of the house is released].” You go and swing it in the area of the censers, [saying: “The centre of the house is seized].” You return and swing it over the censers, [saying: “May Fire purify]!” (7) When you are to put combustibles on the censer, [you giv]e incense [thri]ce and…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336311/
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Transliteration
[ki-i É—daš-šur a-na a-ba-li-ka-ni MUN a-na ka-ra]-⸢ri-ka⸣-[ni] / [daš-šur u dNIN.LÍL dIM dMAŠ.MAŠ TI.LA muḫ]-⸢ra⸣ ta-qab-bi / [ki-i šá—te-li-si ina UGU GIŠ.BANŠUR a-na] še-tu-qí-ka-ni / [qa-a-tu pa-aṭ-rat ta-qab-bi tu-šá-na-aʾ] ina ⸢MURUB₄⸣ É tu-še-taq / [MURUB₄ É pa-ṭir ta-qab]-⸢bi⸣ tal-⸢lak⸣ ina kaq-qar še-ḫa-ti tu-še-taq / [MURUB₄ É ṣa-bit ta-qab-bi] ⸢tu⸣-ta-ra ina UGU še-ḫa-a-ti KI.MIN /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336311.
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/P336311/..
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/P336311/.
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