Position in chronology
SAA 02 001. Treaty of Šamši-Adad V with Marduk-zakir-šumi, King of Babylon (AfO 08 28)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 2(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] horses [......]. (3) If the governor [......] sends troops [to ......], the king [shall ... no]thing [......]. (5) [......] he shall trust [in] their [stead]fast heart ...[...]. (6) [......] he shall not deport [......] Babylonia and Assyria nor seize [......]. (7) He shall [......] to the forts and gar[risons ......]. (8) Šamši-Adad shall not say (any) evil words about Marduk-rimanni [... to] the king, (viz.): "Kill, blind, or se[ize him", nor] shall king Marduk-zakir-šumi listen to him (should he say such things). (11) [He shall not ......] him, [nor ...]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] ḫi [x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUR.RA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i LÚv.EN.NAM ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x x x x x x] e-mu-qí il-tap-ru LUGAL mim-⸢ma?⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x x ina ku]-⸢un⸣ ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu la it-ták-lu na-a-[x x x] / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ KUR—URI.KI u KUR—aš-šur.KI ul-te-eg-lu-ma ⸢šum⸣-[ma] / [x x x x x] ⸢iṣ?⸣-ṣab-tu-ma…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P240211.
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/P240211/..
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/P240211/.
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