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SAA 20 055. Record of Events at Ešarra on 20-x-714 (CTN 2, 246)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [In the r]eign of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, [in the ep]onym year of Issar-duri, governor of Arrapha (714) , [on the 20th day], the basalt [so]cle underneath the panther of copper was brought into the House of Aššur. [While] the socle was being dragged, they pushed the altar into the socle and delivered a report [bef]ore the king. (6) On the 21st [of Tebet] (X), the royal scribe, Nabû-šallimšunu, came to the Inner City. [...s] were brought [in] big carts from the house of the governor and slain on the altar. (8) [The regular off]ering was performed before Aššur. The House of God was…
Source: Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P224589/
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Transliteration
[i-na] ⸢tar⸣-ṣi mLUGAL—GI.NA MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI / [i-na] ⸢li⸣-me mdINNIN—BÀD LÚ.GAR.KUR URU.arrap-ḫa / [UD 20-KÁM] ⸢KI⸣.TUŠ šá NA₄.AD.BAR ša KI.TA dnam-ri URUDU ina É—da-šur ú-se-ri-bu / [ki-i] KI.TUŠ i-šá!-da-du-ni maš-ki-it-tu i-na ŠÀ KI.TUŠ! i-da-ʾu-pu / [i-na] ⸢pa⸣-an LUGAL ṭè-e-mu ú-tir-ru / [ITI.AB] UD 21-KÁM mdAG—šal-lim-šú-nu LÚ.DUB.SAR—LUGAL a-na URU.ŠÀ—URU i-tal-ka / [x ina?]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P224589.
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/P224589/..
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/P224589/.
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