Position in chronology
SAA 02 002. Treaty of Aššur-nerari V with Mati’-ilu, King of Arpad (AfO 08 17+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(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…
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/P336039/
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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: BM 134596 + (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336039). source
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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