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SAA 20 016. Rituals in the Equ House (AsT 43)
Translation · reference
High confidence(beginning broken away) (i 1') [...] Ištar [......] (i 2') [He burns] female kids as on the 6t[h day]. (i 3') [Hav]ing finished his ritual, the k[ing retires] to the [side]room (and) removes the jewellery. He comes out and [prostrates himself] before Ištar. They lay down [the ...]... [He kisses] the ground at the right and left of Ištar. Using a lance, he giv[es ...] before Nikkal, [...]. (i 7') The king comes out, [...s] under [..., and sits down] on the couch before the left-hand door. They [place] a table before the king. One cupbearer steps to the right of the king, p[laces an…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P395027/
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Transliteration
[x x x] x ⸢d!15! x⸣ [x x x x x x] / [UDU].MÍ.ÁŠ.QAR-MEŠ ki-i ⸢ša⸣ UD ⸢06?-KÁM⸣ [i-qal-lu] / [ki]-ma dul-lu-šú ug-dam-mir ⸢LUGAL⸣ a-na É—[ŠU.2 i-na-šar] / [du]-ma-qí ul-la ú-ṣa-a ina IGI d15 [x x x x] / [x] x-⸢ta?⸣-ku-u-ni i-kar-ru-ru 15 150 šá d15 kaq-qu-⸢ru⸣ [i-na-šiq x x] / ⸢ina⸣ IGI dNIN.GAL ina ŠÀ a-rik-ti SUM!-⸢an⸣ [x x x x] / LUGAL ú-ṣa-a ina šá!-⸢pal!⸣ [x x x x] / [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ GIŠ.IG ša KAB…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P395027.
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/P395027/..
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/P395027/.
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