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SAA 20 001. Rituals on Shebat 18-22 (OrSP 21, 135)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) On the 18th day the king goes down to the House of God. [He ...s] at the Ro[yal] Entrance. A chanter [...s] before the ki[ng .... At the] Anzû [Ga]te, water for the purification cone [is placed in the king’s hands] and the gods are hung around the king’s neck [...]. (5) [The king en]ters and prostrates himself in front of Aššur. [He places] loaves of bread before [Aššur]. He swings the [purific]ation device over the censer, [gives] in[cense] twice, and pours out a [libation] bowl. (7) He ascends (the dais) and sets the table. He places upon it loaves of brea[d, plates with] spi[cy…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336307/
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Transliteration
⸢UD 18-KÁM LUGAL⸣ ina É—DINGIR ur-rad ina né-reb ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] / LÚ.UŠ.KU ina IGI-at ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x] / [ina] ⸢KÁ⸣ an-⸢ze⸣-e A-MEŠ ⸢šá mul-li-li a!⸣-[na ŠU.2 LUGAL i-šak-ku-nu] / [DINGIR]-MEŠ ina GÚ LUGAL ⸢i-kar!⸣-[ru-ru x x x x] / [LUGAL er]-⸢rab⸣ ina IGI aš-šur ⸢uš⸣-ka-na NINDA-MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [IGI aš-šur GAR-an] / [ša—te]-⸢li-si ina UGU⸣ še-eḫ-ti ú-še-taq 02-šú ⸢ŠEM⸣.[en-di id-dan] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336307.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts (State Archives of Assyria, 20), 2017. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, 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/P336307/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336307/.
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