Position in chronology
SAA 03 039. Mystical Miscellanea (KAR 307)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) [... is his ...] Tamarisk is his topknot. [......]. (2) [...] is his [...]. The palm frond is [his] whiskers. (3) [Cedar] is his [kne]es. The apple is his ankle bones. The snake is his penis. The harp is his hand. (4) [.......] his wings. (5) [...] is his [...]. The cat is the blood of his heart. The partridge is a drop of his heart's blood. (6) [...]... [is his ...]. The pig is his innards. (7) The scorpion is his lip. The whet-stone is his tongue. The leek is the hair of his armpits. (8) The drum is his lower jaw. (9) The lion is his larger intestines. The dog is his smaller intestines.…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x GIŠ].⸢ŠINIG⸣ qim-mat-su ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x]-MEŠ-šú GIŠ.sa-ri SU₆*-MEŠ-[šú] / [GIŠ.e-re-nu bir]-⸢ka⸣-šú GIŠ.ḪAŠḪUR ki-ṣal-la-šú MUŠ GÌŠ-šú GIŠ.ZÀ.MÍ ŠU-⸢su⸣ / [x x x x x x] ka-ap-pa-šú / [x x x x x x]-šú SA.A MÚD ŠÀ-šú MUŠEN.BURU₅.ḪABRUD.DA.MUŠEN ni-ti-ik MÚD-MEŠ ŠÀ-šú / [x x] ⸢a x⸣ [x] ⸢ŠAḪ⸣ ú-man-da-šú / ⸢GÍR⸣.TAB NUNDUN-⸢su NA₄⸣.mu-ši-el-tú EME-šú Ú.GA.RAŠ SÍG.ÙZ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336234.
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/P336234/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336234/.
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