Position in chronology
SAA 02 002. Treaty of Aššur-nerari V with Mati’-ilu, King of Arpad (AfO 08 17+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 2(Beginning destroyed) (i 1) [... may Mati'-ilu], his sons and daughters, his mag[nates and the people of his land become] altogether like [...], may his land [be reduced] to wasteland, may only an area of the size of a brick (be left) for [him to stand upon], may nothing be left for his sons, [his daughters, his magnates and the peo]ple of his land to stand upon. May Mati'-ilu [together with his sons], daughters, magnates and the people of his land [...] like limestone, and may he, together with the people of his land, be cru[shed] like gypsum. (i 10) This spring lamb has not been brought out…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x] pa* [x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢DUMU-MEŠ-šú⸣ DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ-šú ⸢GAL⸣-[MEŠ-šú UN-MEŠ KUR-šú] / am—mar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / KUR-su am—mar ḫar-⸢ba-ti⸣ [x x x] / kaq-qa-ru am—mar SIG₄ ina ú-[zu-zi-šú] / a-na ú-zu-zi šá DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU.MÍ-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú GAL-MEŠ-šú] / ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ KUR-šú li-iḫ-liq mma-ti-iʾ—DINGIR [DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / [DUMU].MÍ-MEŠ-šú GAL-MEŠ-šú UN-MEŠ KUR-šú GIM pu-⸢li⸣ [x x x] / šu-tú a-di UN-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P336039.
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/P336039/..
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/P336039/.
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