Position in chronology
SAA 03 040. Commentary to the Assyrian Cultic Calendar (LKA 073)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) In Shebat, the 16th day when the king goes to [...], is because they vanquished Anu. (2) The 17th day, which they call the Entry, is when Marduk vanquished his enemies. (3) The 18th day, which they call the Silence: they cast Qingu and his forty sons from the roof. (4) The oil and honey which is cast into the gutter, is cast as a representation of their blood. (5) The 19th day, which they call the Silence, is when he vanquished Anu and the Pleiades, the sons of Enmešarra. (6) The 19th day (of) Wrath is day the King defeated Anu, the day King Marduk defeated Anu. (7) The 21st day he pulled…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina ⸢ITI.ZÍZ UD 16-KÁM ša⸣ LUGAL a-na gim-[(x)-x]+⸢x⸣ DU-ku áš-šú ik-mu-u da-num / UD 17-KÁM ša te-ru-ub-ti DUG₄.GA-ú be-lum a.a-⸢bi-šú⸣ ki-i ik-⸢mu⸣-u / UD 18-KÁM ša qu-li DUG₄.GA-⸢ú⸣ dqin-gu EN 40 DUMU-MEŠ-šú TAv ÙR ŠUB-MEŠ-ni / Ì LÀL ša ina ŠÀ GIŠ.GÁ ⸢ŠUB⸣-MEŠ-ni a-na NU MÚD-MEŠ-šú-nu ŠUB-MEŠ-ni / UD 19-KÁM ša qu-li DUG₄.GA ⸢d⸣a-num d7.BI DUMU-MEŠ dEN.ME.ŠÁR.RA ki-i LAL-ú / UD 20-01-LAL-KÁM…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336244.
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/P336244/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336244/.
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