Position in chronology
SAA 03 014. Love Lyrics of Nabû and Tašmetu (TIM 09 54)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) May anyone trust in whomever he trusts; as for us, we trust in Nabû, we are devoted to Tašmetu! (4) What is ours is ours; Nabû is our lord, Tašmetu is the mountain of our trust! Ditto. (6) Say to her, to her of the wall, to her of the wall, to Tašmetu: "Save (us), sit down in the cella!" (8) Let (the scent of) holy juniper fill the sanctuary! Ditto. (9) The shade of the cedar, the shade of the cedar, the shade of the cedar, the king's shelter! The shade of the cypress (is for) his magnates! The shade of a sprig of juniper is shelter for my Nabû and my games! Ditto. (12) Tašmetu, fondles…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
man-nu ana šá ta-kil-ú lu ta-⸢kil⸣ / a-ni-nu a-na dAG tak-la-a-ni / a-na dtaš-me-tum šur-bu-ba-ni-ma / ša at-tu-u-ni at-tu-u-ni dAG EN-a-ni / dtaš-me-tum šad-du-ú ša tuk-la-te-ni* KI.MIN / a-na ša BÀD a-na ša BÀD a-na dtaš-me-tum qi-ba-niš-ši / ⸢ma⸣-a eṭ-⸢ri⸣ ši-i-bi i-na É—pa-pa-ḫi-e / i-na pa-rak-ki lil-li-ku ŠEM.LI KUG-MEŠ KI.MIN / ṣil GIŠ.ERIN ṣil GIŠ.ERIN ṣil GIŠ.ERIN pu-zar LUGAL / ṣil…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P223388.
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/P223388/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P223388/.
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