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SAA 02 003. Sennacherib’s Succession Treaty (PKTA 31)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... which Sennach]erib, king of Assyr[ia, your lord], has set to you: (2) [If you should hear] improper things, you shall speak out [going] to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, [your lord], and totally devoting yourselves to the king, your lord, (5) if you should not protect [Esarhaddon, the crown prince designate, and] the other princes [whom Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has presen]ted to you; (otherwise): (7) [May Aššur, Mullissu, Šerua], Sin, Nikkal, Šamaš, Nu[r, Anu, Antu, Illil, Adad, Š]ala, Kippat-mati, [Ištar of Heaven, Ištar of Nineveh], Ištar of [Arbela,…
Source: Parpola, S. & Watanabe, K. 1988. Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths. SAA 2. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa02/P336317/
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Transliteration
[x x x x ša md30—PAB]-⸢MEŠ*—SU*⸣ MAN* KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣.[KI EN-ku-nu] / [x x x x iš]-⸢ku*⸣-na-⸢ka⸣-[nu-ni] a-bu-tú ⸢la* de*⸣-iq-⸢tú⸣ [ta-šam-ma-a-ni] / [la ta-qab-ba]-⸢a*-ni*⸣ a-na md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU MAN KUR—aš-šur.[KI EN-ku-nu] / [la ta-lak-a-ni-ni] ⸢ŠÀ*-ba*⸣-ku-nu a-na LUGAL EN-ku-nu ⸢la* ga*⸣-mur-[u-ni o] / [šum-ma maš-šur—PAB—AŠ DUMU—MAN GAL ša É—UŠ-ti ù] ⸢re-eḫ⸣-te DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL [ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P336317.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola and Kazuko Watanabe, Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths (State Archives of Assyria, 2), 1988. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336317/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. & Watanabe, K. 1988. Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths. SAA 2. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa02/P336317/.
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