Position in chronology
SAA 20 032. Ritual for the Daughter-of-River (KAR 141)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) [Wh]en [you perform the n]āṭu of the Daughter-of-the-River before [...], at the 5/6th double-hour of [the d]ay you go to the river and pitch a [ten]t on the river bank. You place the front of the tent towards the desert. (4) You collect seeds, pulling the sufferer of the punishment, (while) the singer keeps reciting: “I know the sinner” — a second time like this, a third time like this. You throw the things pulled out into the river. He throws the ‘solvents’ before Šamaš. (9) You put up a bed in the tent. [You place] on the be[d] a habannutu-jar of haršu and a habannutu-jar of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣ x ⸢na!⸣-a!-ṭu ša DUMU.MÍ—⸢ÍD⸣ ina! IGI! [x x x x] / ⸢ina⸣ 5::⸢6 KASKAL.GÍD⸣ [UD]-me ina UGU ÍD ta-lak [maš-ku]-nu / ina GÚ ⸢ÍD⸣ SÌG-aṣ pa-an maš-ki-ni a-na ⸢EDIN⸣ GAR-⸢an⸣ / ⸢ŠE⸣.NUMUN-MEŠ tu-pa-ḫar EN—šìp-ṭí tu-na-saḫ / ⸢LÚ⸣.NAR ú-da EN—ar-ni iq-ṭa-⸢na⸣-[bi] / ⸢02-te⸣-šú ki-i an-nim-ma 03-te-šú ki-i an-⸢nim⸣-(ma) / nu-sa-ḫa-a-ti a-na ÍD ta-kar-ra-ar / ina IGI dUTU pi-iš-ra-a-te i-kar-ra-ar /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P336229.
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/P336229/..
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/P336229/.
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