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SAA 03 049. Fragment Mentioning Gilgameš Epic (NE 50)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [......] of Gilgameš, a roy[al] work of art [......] (2) [......] a scribe of Borsippa, dwelling in the Inner City, dwelling in Arbela. (3) [......] in the Temple, in the House of Emašmaš (4) [...... writing bo]ard and styluses are tied to their waists; (5) [......] have been secured on her lap, writing styluses are tied to her waist. (6) [......] place the crown on your head! (7) [...... the pal]ace of the herald of Assyria! (8) [......]... Belet-šamê, a bolt of lapis lazuli (9) [...... the S]eries of Gilgameš which ...[...] (10) [...... ki]ngship for the herald [...] (11) [......]…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336291/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dGIŠ.GÍN.MAŠ ši-pir MAN ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] / [x x x x LÚ].⸢DUB⸣.SAR BÁR.SIPA.KI a-šib ŠÀ—URU a-šib URU.arba-ìl / [x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ É.KUR-ri É É.MAŠ.MAŠ / [x x x x GIŠ].⸢le⸣-ʾu qar—ṭup-pa-a-ti ri-kis MURUB₄.2-šú-nu / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ ú-kin-nu ina bir-ki-šá GI—ṭup-pa-MEŠ ri-kis MURUB₄-šá / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-in-ni a-gu-u šá SAG.DU-ki / [x x x x x x] ⸢É?⸣.GAL-šú šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336291.
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/P336291/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336291/.
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