Position in chronology
SAA 20 006. Rituals on [Shebat 23?] (RIAA 315)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) [On the 23rd day the king performs] the ‘washing of the mouth’ [in the main room]. (2) [... they] p[ut a portable censer] of juniper in the king’s hand. (3) [The king] enters the house of Dagan [with a rikshaw]. He brings f[orth a portable censer and a torch], lights the censer, [illuminates the face]. (5) [... in] the courtyard an eating-bowl (6) [......] he offers [...] and returns the eating-bowl (7) [......] he puts [...] on the censer (8) [......] pours wine [...] (9) [......] He ‘arouses’ the house, (10) [......] performs sheep offerings. (11) He seats [the chanters]. (12) He…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[UD 23-KÁM LUGAL ina É—dan-ni] ⸢KA!⸣.LUḪ!.⸢Ù!.DA! DÙ!⸣-[áš] / [x x x x x x NÍG.NA] ⸢ŠEM⸣.LI a-⸢na!⸣ ŠU! LUGAL! ⸢id!⸣-[du-nu] / [LUGAL TA* GIŠ.šá—šá-da-di ina] É—d⸢da!⸣-gan! er!-rab / [x x x NÍG.NA GI.IZI.LÁ] ú-⸢qar!⸣-[rab] še-eḫ-tú ú-šar-ra / [zi-mu ú-šá-an-mar x x] ta!-⸢ár⸣-[ba?]-ṣi ma-ka!-su / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ú!⸣-qar!-rab! ma!-ka!-su ú-GUR? / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ qur ⸢x⸣ ina še!-eḫ!-ti…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P282529.
Attribution
Image: MRAH O.0230 (Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P282529). source
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/P282529/.
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