Position in chronology
SAA 20 015. Rituals in the Akitu House on Nisan 7-8, and Temple Service Rites (KAR 215 + PKT 16)
Translation · reference
High confidence(beginning (about 2-6 lines) lost) (i 1') [They] en[ter] the Akitu House. The king com[es]; they give the gods around the king’s neck. He goes and lights the censer, and steps upon the stand. (i 6') The man-woman raises the weapons and shouts, opposite Ištar: “Ebirna, ebirna!” (i 8') The king goes to the spring. He performs sheep offerings and offers blood to the spring. He throws a fish and a crab into the spring, pours oil, honey, and wine into the spring. He swings the purification device, and appears (to the public). (i 14') From the spring the king enters the Akitu House. He kisses the…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336233/
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Transliteration
[a-na É.a]-ki-te ⸢er!⸣-[ru-bu] / LUGAL il-la-[ka] / DINGIR-MEŠ-ni šá GÚ LUGAL i-du-⸢nu⸣ / il-lak še-eḫ-tu ú-šar-ra / i-na ma-za-si i-za-az / LÚ!.SAL GIŠ.TUKUL-MEŠ i-na-áš-ši / i-na pu-ut dINNIN e!-bir!-na e!-bir!-na i-sa-si / LUGAL a-na UGU ÍD.e-ni il-lak / UDU.SISKUR i-na-saḫ MÚD-MEŠ ina ŠÀ e-ni ú-šam-ḫar / nu-ú-nu al!-lu-tu / ina ŠÀ ÍD.e-ni i-kar-ra-ar / Ì-MEŠ LÀL-MEŠ GEŠTIN-MEŠ ina ŠÀ e-ni…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336233.
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/P336233/..
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/P336233/.
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