Position in chronology
SAA 20 046. Fragment of a Takultu Text (Takultu 9)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(totally destroyed) (beginning broken away) (r i 1') the god [......], the god [......], the god [......] who dwells [...], Mt. Eb[eh, ..., ......], (r i 7') Ištar o[f ...], the Lady of Paran[zi], the Seven Gods (and) the Narudi, Nergal of Tarbiṣu, the heaven and earth: (r i 12') The gods of Nineveh. (r i 13') Aššur-Aššur, Aššur-Enlil, Ninurta, Nusku, Ner[gal], the Weapon, Aššur-J[udges], Enlil, Aššur-[Adad, Ninurta]-image[s], (rest broken away) (beginning broken away) (r ii 1') the divine [...], the Weapons, the Wild Bulls, the Lahmus-image, the Fathers, the Dais of Destinies, the Lady of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢d⸣[x x x x x] / d[x x x x x] / dx [x x x x] / a-⸢šib⸣ [x x x x] / KUR.e-⸢bi⸣-[iḫ x x x] / d[x x x x x] / d15 ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / dGAŠAN URU.⸢pa-ra-an⸣-[zi] / d07.BI dna-⸢ru⸣-du / dU.GUR šá URU.tar-bi-ṣi / AN-e KI.TIM / DINGIR-MEŠ ša URU.ni-nu-a / aš-šur—aš-šur aš-šur—dBE d⸢MAŠ⸣ / dPA.TÚG dMAŠ.[MAŠ] / GIŠ.TUKUL—aš-šur d⸢DI⸣.[KUD-MEŠ] / dBE aš-šur—d[IM] / [dMAŠ]—⸢ALAM⸣-[MEŠ] / d⸢x x d!GIŠ.TUKUL⸣-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P398399.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P398399). 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/P398399/.
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