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SAA 02 010. Assurbanipal’s Treaty with the Qedar Tribe (JCS 39 159)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Break) (1) [The treaty of Assurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, likewise king of the world, king of Assyria, with Abi-yate' son of Te'ri, his sons, grandsons, brothers and nephews, with all Qedarites, young and old, and with ...] son of Yau[ta', in the presence of all the gods of] Assyria and Qedar: (3) [Swear by Aššur], Mullissu and [Šerua]: (4) [Considering th]at Yauta' (your) malef[actor] handed all [Arab]s over to destruction [through] the iron sword, and put you to the sword, (8) [and that Assur]banipal, king of Assyria, your lord, put oil on you and…
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/P336217/
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Transliteration
[TAv mx x x] A m⸢ia-ú⸣-[ta-aʾ x x x] / [(IGI) DINGIR-MEŠ KUR]—aš-šur DINGIR-MEŠ KUR.qi-id-[ri DÙ-šú-nu] / [aš-šur] d⸢NIN⸣.LÍL d*⸢še*⸣-[ru-u-a] / [pit?-ti?] ⸢šá⸣ mia-ú-ta-aʾ la ⸢MUN⸣-[a-nu?] / [pi-i] ⸢GÍR⸣.AN.BAR a-na ḫa-lu-[qi o*] / [KUR.a-ru]-⸢bu?⸣ gab-bu id-din-⸢u⸣-[ni o*] / [ina pi]-⸢i⸣ GÍR.AN.BAR iš-kun-u-ka-nu-⸢ni⸣ / [maš-šur]—⸢DÙ⸣—A ⸢MAN⸣ KUR—aš-šur EN-ku-nu / ⸢Ì⸣.GIŠ iš-kun-ak-ka-nu-u-ni /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P336217.
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/P336217/..
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/P336217/.
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