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A royal ritual displays the Anzû myth (1)

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 		Keywords
chariots
Ninurta
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Akkadian poetry

Text
SAA 3 39.20’-23’:
The Elamite chariot, which has no seat, carries inside it the corpse of Enmešarra. The horses which are harnessed to it are the ghost of Anzû. The king who stands in the chariot is the warrior king, the lord Ninurta.

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SAA 3 39.20’-23’

Bibliography

Annus 2002, 93-94Annus, 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.

Amar Annus


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