SAA 20 022. Bath of Šarrat-nipha (ABL 0864)[via saao/saa20]
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| oo | beginning (a few lines only) broken away | |
| o 1'1' | (1') [The king] per[forms] sheep offerings, goes to the hou[se of Šarrat]-nip[ha], strew[s] salt on the t[able], pour[s] out the libation b[owls, ..., burns] a female kid, brings Šarrat-[nipha] into the Road House, and begins the bath. | |
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| o 9'9' | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] za am [x] | |
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| o 16'16' | (16') After the bath he comes out and performs sheep offerings. The king goes straight to the palace. | |
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| rr | uninscribed |
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/P393911/.