SAA 13 135. It Is Not an Ancient Ritual (CT 53 965)[via saao/saa13]
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o 2'2' | [x x x x]-e ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 3'3' | (3) I will go to [...]. There is [a ritual]. In [the month of ...], on the 16th day, in the even[ing, Ištar] will g[o] through the great gate [and] descend into the cana[l ...]. There is a ritual [he will perform]. She will then come up from the canal, go under the gate of the temple of Nabû, and take a seat in the shrine's gate. [Th]ere is a [ritual] he will perfo[rm]. She will then go d[own] from the shrine's gate in[to the ...] of the palace which faces the [...] of the drinking place. He will fin[ish] 3 libation jars. This is not a ritual; this is nothing. It is not ancient — your father introduced [it]. | |
o 4'4' | i-ba-áš-ši ina ŠÀ-bi [ITI x x] | |
o 5'5' | UD 16-KÁM ina sa-⸢ḫar?⸣—[UD-me d15] | |
o 6'6' | ina ŠÀ ⸢KÁ⸣.GAL ra-⸢bi⸣-te tal-[lak x x] | |
o 7'7' | ⸢tu-ra⸣-ad ina ŠÀ ḫi-ri-[te x x] | |
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r 77 | UD 19-KÁM mu-da-ri-ik-⸢tu⸣ | (r 7) On the 19th is the mudarriktu (ritual). Ištar will proceed to the temple of Gula in the countryside and si[t] on a brick. We will make an offering [...] |
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r 1010 | ⸢UDU⸣.SISKUR ni-na-sa-aḫ [x x] | |
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Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P314374/.