Position in chronology
SAA 20 025. Ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for the Lady-of-the-River (BA 05, 689 + BBR pl. 61)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) [Tukulti-Ninurta (I), king of Assyria, performed and] insti[tuted the (following) rites for the Lady-of-the-River], his [g]od. (2) [When] you are to perform [the nāṭu-ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for the Lady-of]-the-River: (3) [......] perform [this ritual before the Lady-of-the-River] (and) his seed will solidify! (4) [You erect a tent, place its opening before Šamaš, and] place a chair at the side of the tent. [You lay clean red wool upon it, (and) place a bowl of sweet oil, aromatics], juniper, and a tuft of red wool on it. (6) [You set up a table before Šamaš, and] place [a censer,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
[e-pu-uš-ma mtukul-ti—MAŠ MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI par-ṣi a-na GAŠAN—ÍD] ⸢DINGIR⸣-šú ú-ki-in-[ma SUM-in] / [e-nu-ma na-a-ṭu ša mtukul-ti—dMAŠ a-na GAŠAN]—ÍD a-na e-pe-še-⸢i!-ka!⸣ / [x x x x x x x x dul-lu an-na-a ina IGI GAŠAN—ÍD šal]-⸢lim!⸣ e-pu-uš NUMUN-šú i-ka-⸢ṣar⸣ / [TÚG.maš-ku-nu ina GÚ ÍD SÌG-aṣ KÁ-šú a-na IGI dUTU GAR-an] GIŠ.GU.ZA ina i-di TÚG.maš-ki-ni ŠUB-di / [SÍG.ḪÉ.MED eb-bu ina UGU-ḫi…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P397118.
Attribution
Image: BM 098762 + (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P397118). 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/P397118/.
Related tablets
Related sources
A surviving administrative record of named people and livestock in the Ur III period. Together with other archives, such accounts reveal the work of managing animals, deliveries and institutional responsibility.
A major witness to the Mesopotamian Flood tradition and its relationship to later biblical literature. The date of this particular copy must be distinguished from the older history of the story.
An object naming and depicting a powerful priestess and royal daughter around 2300 BCE. Enheduanna is also a landmark in named literary authorship, but that literary legacy must be distinguished from this disk’s dedication.