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SAA 20 022. Bath of Šarrat-nipha (ABL 0864)
Translation · reference
High confidence(beginning (a few lines only) broken away) (1') [The king] per[forms] sheep offerings, goes to the hou[se of Šarrat]-nip[ha], strew[s] salt on the t[able], pour[s] out the libation b[owls, ..., burns] a female kid, brings Šarrat-[nipha] into the Road House, and begins the bath. (16') After the bath he comes out and performs sheep offerings. The king goes straight to the palace. (uninscribed)
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P393911/
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Transliteration
⸢UDU⸣.[SISKUR-MEŠ] / i-[na-saḫ] / ina ⸢É⸣—[dGAŠAN]—KUR-[ḫa] / il-[lak] / MUN ina UGU GIŠ.⸢BANŠUR⸣ / i-kar-⸢ra-ar⸣ / pa-⸢gi-li⸣ / ú-ga-am-⸢mar⸣ / [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] za am [x] / ⸢UDU.MÍ.ÁŠ.QAR⸣ [GÍBIL] / dGAŠAN—[KUR-ḫa] / ina ⸢É—ur-ḫi⸣ / ú-še-rab / ri-in-ku / i-šá-kan / TA* UGU ri-in-ki! / ú-ṣa-a / UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ / i-na-saḫ / ⸢LUGAL⸣ ina É.GAL / i-še-er
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P393911.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393911). 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/P393911/.
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