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Ištar of Arbela to Esarhaddon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Lamp of god
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.05 Celestial imagery
01.05.11 Lamp of god
Prophecy
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.06 Prophecy
Three-layered heaven
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.05 Celestial imagery
01.05.02 Three-layered heaven
Throne of god
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.05 Celestial imagery
01.05.09 Throne of god

Keywords
kings
minerals

Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire

Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
SAA 9 1.3.19’-29’:
For long days and everlasting years I have established your throne under the great heavens. I watch in a golden chamber in the midst of the heavens; I let the lamp of amber shine before Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, and I watch him like the crown of my head.

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SAA 9 1.3.19’-29’

Bibliography

Parpola 1997, 7

Parpola, Simo. Assyrian Prophecies. State Archive of Assyria 9. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press 1997.

Amar Annus

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