SAA 20 018. Victory and Lion-Hunt Ritual (AsT 39)

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P398398

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 20

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(1) [...] the king [......] (2) [...] Enlil [......] (3) [...] ... [......] (4) [...] Enlil [......] (5) (Break) (7) [... Belat]-dunani [......] (8) [......] he places upon it [......] (9) He ties [......, ...s] two rams [...] (10) They separate [..., bring forth] the sarrānus, and remain standing before the gods. They perform hitpu-offerings and place the sarrānus before the gods. The singer intones, “The hero got angry, enraged was the beautiful prince.” (16) The sarrānus turn their faces towards the enemy. They hum and dance. The kurgarrûs sing, “Battle is my game,” the assinnus exchange…

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

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Transliteration

[x] x-nu LUGAL ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x] x dBE [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x] x ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x] dBE [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] ka [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x dGAŠAN]—⸢du⸣-na-ni i-[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x ina] ⸢UGU?⸣-ḫi GAR-an x [x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢i-rak⸣-kas 02 UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ [x x x x…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P398398.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P398398). 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/P398398/.

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