SAA 20 008. Brazier Offerings to Aššur (AsT 33)

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P452887

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 20

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(beginning broken away) (2') They go [......] (3') They bu[rn a female kid ......]. (4') On the 16th day, at night, they li[ght ...] a fi[re] in the the House of Aššur [...]. (6') [They start] the brazier before Aššur. (7') [......] one ram on the brazier. (8') Kakka comes out [......] (9') [......] before the brazier (10') [...] the brazier before Aš[šur] (11') [...] the torch in [...] (12') The people of the country [......] (13') He prepares the bed [......] (rest broken away)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

x [x x x x x x x x x x x] / il-lu-⸢ku⸣ x [x x x x x MÍ.ÁŠ.QAR] / i-qa-⸢al⸣-[lu x x x x x] / ⸢UD⸣ 16-KÁM šá ba-a-di i-šá-[tu x x] / ina É—aš-šur ú-šá-[ḫu-zu x x x x] / ka-nu-nu ina pa-an daš-šur ⸢i⸣-[x x] / 01 UDU.NÍTA ina UGU ka-nu-ni [x x x x] / dGA.GA ú-ṣa-a ina x [x x x x x] / ina IGI ka-nu-ni [x x x x x x x x] / ka-nu-nu ina IGI daš-⸢šur⸣ [x x x x] / zi-iq-tu ina [x x x x x x x x] / UN-MEŠ KUR x [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢GIŠ.NÁ⸣ GAR-an [x x x x x x x x] / [x x]-⸢bu ú⸣-[x x x x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P452887.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P452887). 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/P452887/.

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