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Cover image of S. Parpola, Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts (State Archives of Assyria 20), Winona Lake, IN, 2017.

This sub-project of the Archival Texts of the Assyrian Empire (ATAE) [/atae/] Project includes annotated (lemmatized), open-access versions of fifty-six Neo-Assyrian texts from Assur published in the following six volumes of the University-of-Helsinki-based State Archives of Assyria [/saao/] series:

• SAA 02 [/saao/saa02/] = S. Parpola and K. Watanabe, Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths (State Archives of Assyria 2), Helsinki 1988
• SAA 03 [/saao/saa03/] = A. Livingstone, Assyrian court poetry and literary miscellanea (State Archives of Assyria 3), Helsinki 1989
• SAA 12 [/saao/saa12/] = L. Kataja and R. Whiting, Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (State Archives of Assyria 12), Helsinki, 1995
• SAA 13 [/saao/saa13/] = S. Cole and P. Machinist, Letters from priests to kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria 13), Helsinki 1999
• SAA 20 [/saao/saa20/] = S. Parpola, Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts (State Archives of Assyria 20), Winona Lake, IN, 2017
• SAAS 2 [/saao/saas2/] = A. R. Millard, The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 B.C. (State Archives of Assyria Studies 2), Helsinki 1994

Click here [/atae/saaoassur/pager] to visit the ATAE/SAAo Assur corpus, this link [/atae/assur/] to visit the ATAE Assur Portal, this link [/atae/] to visit the Main ATAE Portal, or this link [/atae/pager] to browse the entire ATAE corpus.

ATAE is a key component of the Archival Texts of the Middle East in Antiquity (ATMEA) sub-project of the LMU-Munich-based Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/research/mocci/index.html] (MOCCI; directed by Karen Radner and Jamie Novotny). Funding for the ATAE corpus project has been provided by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East).

For further details, see the "About the project" [/atae/abouttheproject/index.html] page.