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SAA 20 038. Takultu for Sennacherib and Temple Service for Nineveh (STT 088)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) [Aššur-Enlil]; Mašmaš; Aššur-[Adad] in front of Aššur-d[ugul]; Aššur-Adad in front of Aššur-Conqueror; Enlil-Anu; Ea-šarru; Sîn, Adad, Šamaš; Ištar, the Queen of Heaven of Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Šerua; the Great Gods; [Taš]metu, [Ninurta, Nu]sku; Kippat-mati, Kippat-mati-image, Kutatati; Enlil, Dagan, Aššur-Tiara, Sun-image, Aššur-Lahmus, Aššur-Judges, Kittu, Sîn, Šamaš, Aššur-Conqueror; Ea, Kittu (and) Mišaru, Dibar; Ninurta and Aššur, [Aššur-Šakkan-Tišpak, Aššur-Judges; Lubelim, Gimagan], Il-pad[a]; (i 30) the Couch, Sun-of-the-Lands, the Rivers (and) Usumû, the Images, Kunuš-kadru; the…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P338406/
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Transliteration
[da-šur—dBE] / ⸢d⸣MAŠ.MAŠ / da-šur—⸢d⸣[IM] / šá IGI aš-šur—⸢du⸣-[gul] / da-šur—dIM [0] / šá IGI aš-šur—KUR-id 0! / dBE—da-⸢num⸣ dÉ.A—MAN / d30 dIM dUTU dIŠ.TAR / dGAŠAN—AN-e šá URU.kar—TUKUL—MAŠ / ⸢dše-ru⸣-u₈-a DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ / [dtaš]-⸢me-tum⸣ / [dMAŠ dPA].⸢TÚG⸣ / dkip-pat—KUR / dkip-pat—KUR—ALAM / dku-ta-ta-a-te / dEN.LÍL dda-gan / da-šur—a-gu-ú / dšam-šu—ALAM / aš-šur—dlaḫ-mu-MEŠ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P338406.
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/P338406/..
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/P338406/.
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