Position in chronology
SAA 20 027. Ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for Nusku (BBR pl. 64 + 66 + 69)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) Tukulti-[Ninurta (I), king of Assyria, performed and insti[tuted the (following) rites fo]r Nusku: (2) When you are [to perform] a sheep offering to [Nusku, you g]o [to the house of Sîn (and) let] sunshine enter it through its doo[rway]. (3) [You set up] a chair beside the house under the god, [lay] clean [r]ed [wool] upon it, [and place] a bowl of sweet oil, aromatics, juni[per, and tufts of] red [wo]ol upon it. (5) You set up a table before Šamaš, [light] a cens[er, and place it beh]ind the table. [You place] two libation vessels (and) two libation bowls to the left of the censer, and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
e-pu-uš-ma mtukul-ti—[dMAŠ MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI par-ṣi a]-⸢na⸣ dPA!.TÚG ú-⸢kin!⸣-[ma SUM-in] / e-nu-ma UDU.SISKUR ša [dPA.TÚG a-na e-pe-še-i-ka a-na É—d30? tal]-⸢lak⸣ šá-ru-ri dUTU ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢KÁ!⸣-[šú tu-še-ra-ba] / GIŠ.GU.ZA i-na ⸢DA!⸣ É a-na KI.⸢TA DINGIR⸣ [ŠUB-di SÍG].⸢ḪÉ!⸣.MED eb-bu ina UGU-ḫi [ŠUB-di] / kap-pu Ì-MEŠ DÙG.GA ŠEM-ḪI.A ŠEM.[LI ni-ip-še] ⸢SÍG⸣.tab-ri-bu ina UGU-ḫi [ŠUB-di] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P452137.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P452137). 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/P452137/.
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