Position in chronology
SAA 03 006. Assurbanipal’s Hymn to Tašmetu and Nabû (KAR 122)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) [Let me praise the wi]se [...], Tašmetu [...], (2) [...] lady, queen [......], (3) [Good-l]ooking, attractive [...], (4) [Goddess] of goddesses, queen of queens [...], (5) Princess of Ešarra, temple of the universe [...], (6) She who beseeches, wife of Nabû, the beloved of [...], (7) She who raises and lowers, sage of Ezida. (8) On the fifth day, monthly, is the procession of Tašmetu; (9) When she emerges from the holy workshop to [our] Nabû, the son of Bel raises his head from the tablet house to the nuptial bedroom, reci[tes ...]: (12) Say something, my Tašmetu, why [......]? (13) Bless…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x pal-kat] ⸢uz⸣-ni dtaš-me-⸢tum⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ NUN-tum šar-ra-⸢tum⸣ [x x x x x] / [ba-al]-ta-ni-tum ku-uz-ba-ni-⸢tum⸣ [x x x x x] / [i-lat] i-la-a-ti šar-rat šar-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ [x x x] / [ša]-nu-kàt É.ŠÁR.RA É kiš-šu-ti AN [x x x] / ⸢mu⸣-ṣal-li-tu ḫi-rat dAG na-ra-am-ti d[x x] / mu-šá-qi-tú mu-šá-píl-tú ⸢NUN⸣.ME É.ZI.⸢DA⸣ [x x] / UD 05-KÁM ITI-šam-ma šá-da-aḫ dtaš-[me-tum] / TAv qi-rib…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336226.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Alasdair Livingstone, Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea (State Archives of Assyria, 3), 1989. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2019-20, 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/P336226/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336226/.
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