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SAA 03 012. Righteous Sufferer’s Prayer to Nabû (STT 065)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [......] years (2) [......] ......[...] (3) [...] with [...] feet I grasped [the ...] of ... (4) O Nabû, to avoid sin, O son of Bel, to avoid guilt, [in view of] the culpable behaviour of my fathers and brothers, who neglected and disregarded [...], (6) I have yearned for Ezida, the lofty ground, the temple of our trust; I have longed for Ezida, to behold the threshold of delight. (8) In my [c]hildhood, I longed for the Assembly, to sit in the tablet house. (9) I ... the offerings of the precious temple of Nabû; I constantly think of its fine things; the fire of Ezida burns my heart. (11)…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P338383/
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x]-e MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ra ⸢x⸣ e kal [x x x x x] in-tu-qa ina si-si-[x] / [x x] ⸢it⸣-ti GÌR.2-MEŠ [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] ⸢a⸣-ṣa*-bat ša ma-aq-⸢x x⸣ / [d]⸢AG⸣ ina la ḫi-ṭi-ia DUMU dEN [ina la šir]-ti-ia-a-ma / [ina še]-ṭu-u-ti ša AD-MEŠ-ia PAB-MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ ša! ⸢x x x x⸣-ni im-ku-u iš-ši-ṭu / [a-na] É.ZI.DA uz-za-me kaq-⸢qa⸣-ru šá-qu-u É tuk-la-te-e-ni /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P338383.
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/P338383/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P338383/.
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