Reading akkadian PRayeRs & Hymns An Introduction

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READING AKKADIAN PRAYERS AND HYMNS: AN INTRODUCTION
15. Which are present in my house and (throughout) my land—
16. The great gods inquire of you, and you give advice,
17. They are seated in their assembly and discuss (it) at your feet.
18. O resplendent Sin of Ekur, they inquire of you, and you give the oracle of the
gods,
19. The day of the new moon (is) the day of your oracle, the secret of the great
gods.
20. The thirtieth day (of the month) is your festival, the day for celebrating your
divinity.
21. O Namraṣit, unrivalled in strength, whose advice no one can learn,
22. I, Shamash-shum-ukin, your servant,
23. Offered to you a pure flour-offering of the night.
24. I libated for you first class beer (and) honey.
25. With the consecrated . . . I (hereby) invoke your name,
26. I (hereby) call out to you, my lord, in the midst of the pure heavens.
27. Kneeling (and) standing, I (hereby) seek you.
28. Establish for me a propitious and just oracular utterance.
29. My god and my goddess, who have been angry with me for many days,
30. Through truth and justice, may they be at peace with me,
31. May my path be favorable, may my way be straight.
32. I (hereby) send Anzagar, god of dreams.
33. Let him absolve my sins at night,
34. Let me be whole, let me be purified of my punishment.
35. Let me proclaim your praises forever!
36. It is the wording of a lifted-hand to Sin.
37. Its ritual: You set up a table (made) of tamarisk before Sin. Twelve loaves of
thyme, twelve loaves of sesame, 38. dates, (and) fine flour you strew about. You
set out mersu-cakes, honey, (and) ghee. 39. You libate beer. You recite the incantation
three times. You set up an incense burner with juniper for Anzagar at the
head of their (lit. his) bed. 40. “Anzagar, the message of Nannaru, 41. . . . let
him open (the supplicant’s) ears continually,” you say. 42. You wash their (lit.,
his) hands and their (lit. his) feet with aprushu-plant (and) cassia(?). 43. (They
are the plants for turning back the anger of a personal god.) 44. You tie a lump
of salt, cassia(?), juniper, and a lump from the outer gate into their (lit., his)
(garment’s) hem . . . (the rest is fragmentary and broken away).
CUNEIFORM:
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