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SAA 20 019. Rituals for Ninitu and Kulittu (KAR 146)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) When the king performs the nāṭu of [Ninittu], the king g[oe]s and brin[gs in] Ištar. (i 4) He p[erforms] a sheep offering [before Aššur], and go[es to] feed [the ṣīp]u before Ištar. He strews [salt], and swings [the purif]ication device. He go[es] to swing the purification device on the censer, gives incense thrice, pours out a libation bowl. He gives incense [three] times, performs a sheep offering, burns [ho]ney and oil, completes his [liba]tions, and appears (to the public). (i 16) [He goes] to strew [salt] before the Seven Gods, feeds [the ṣīpu], and completes [libations] of beer,…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P336231/
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Transliteration
⸢ki⸣-i ⸢na-a!-ṭu ša!⸣ [dni-ni-tum] / ⸢LUGAL! ep⸣-pa-šu-⸢ú⸣-[ni] / LUGAL il-⸢lak d⸣INNIN ⸢ú-še⸣-[ra-ab] / ⸢UDU⸣.SISKUR [pa-an aš-šur] i-[na-saḫ] / ⸢il!-lak! pa!-an!⸣ [dINNIN ṣi]-⸢pu!⸣ ú-šá-⸢kal⸣ / [MUN i]-⸢kar!-ra!⸣-ar / [ša—te]-⸢li!-si!⸣ ú-še-taq / ⸢il!⸣-[lak] i-⸢na⸣ še-eḫ-ti / ⸢ša!—te⸣-li-si ú-še-taq / ⸢03!-šú⸣ ŠEM.en-di id-da-an / pa-gu-lu ú-ga-ma-ar / ⸢03!⸣-šú ŠEM.en-di id-da-an / ⸢UDU⸣.SISKUR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336231.
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/P336231/..
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/P336231/.
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