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King as incarnation of Ninurta (1)

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garments
kings
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Akkadian poetry

Text
The Neo-Assyrian ritual commentary explicitly equates the king with Ninurta.

SAA 3 39.20’-23’:
The king who wears on his head a golden tiara from the inside of the temple and sits on a sedan chair, while they carry him and go to the palace, is Ninurta, who avenged his father. The gods his fathers decorated him inside the Ekur, gave him the sceptre, throne and the staff, adorned him with the splendour of kingship, and he went out to the mountain.

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SAA 3 39.20’-23’

Bibliography

Annus 2002Annus, Amar. The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia. State Archives of Assyria Studies 14. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Coprus Project 2002.
Livingstone 1989, 39.20'-23'Livingstone, Alisdair. Court poetry and literary miscellanea. State Archives of Assyria 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press 1989.

Amar Annus


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