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SAA 02 011. Sin-šarru-iškun’s Treaty with Babylonian Allies (BRM 4 50)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The treaty of Sin-šarru-išk[un, king of Assyria], son of Assurbanipal, [king of the world, king of Assyria], with Nabû-apla-iddina [......], with Kanunayu [......], (and) with Aqri [......] in the presence of Ju[piter, Venus ... (Break) (r 1) [By Aššur], augu[st] lord, [defeater of] enemies, lover of [the just], [who] loves the [kin]g and [destroys] his enemy: (r 5) [Whoever] a[lters] the wording of this tablet, or sins against the [trea]ty of the great gods, (r 7) May [......] of heaven and earth cover (sic) them with an evil, irremovable curse. Above, may [he uproot] them from the…
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/P296062/
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Transliteration
[a-de]-e ša md30—⸢MAN*—GAR*⸣—[un MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI] / ⸢DUMU⸣ mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—A [MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI] / ⸢TAv⸣ mdAG—A—⸢SUM⸣-na [x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢TAv⸣ mITI*.AB-⸢a*⸣.a [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢TAv⸣ maq-ri [x x x x x x x x] / [i]-⸢na⸣ ma-ḫar d⸢SAG*⸣.[ME.GAR ddil-bat x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [MU AN.ŠÁR] EN ṣi*-⸢i*-ri?⸣ [x x x x] / [ša] ⸢a.a⸣-bi ra-im-a-nu ša [ke-nu-ti] / [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 P296062.
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/P296062/..
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/P296062/.
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