Position in chronology
SAA 02 009. Assurbanipal’s Treaty with Babylonian Allies (ABL 1105)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 2(Beginning destroyed) (1) [We swear by Aššur, Šerua,] Bel[et-ili, ......, a]ll [the gods of Assyria and Babylonia], and [all] the great gods [of heaven and earth, ......], (3) [that] from this day on [for as long as we live we will be subjects of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria], (that) Assurbanipal, king of Assyria [shall be our king and lord, and (that) we will be totally devoted] to Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, [our] lord. (6) We will not conceal nor hide [any message] or messenger whom Šamaš-šumu-ukin, ki[ng of Babylonia] has [sent or] made [... or who has come to us] from the sons of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x] dbe-lit—[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [DÙ]-šú*-nu DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ša AN-e u KI.TIM x x x x x x x x x x] / [ki-i] ul-tu UD-mu an-ni-⸢i⸣ [a-di UD-mu ma-la bal-ṭa-a-ni x x x x x x x] / [šu]-u mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.[KI LUGAL-a-ni EN-a-ni ŠÀ-bi-ni] / it-ti mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI EN-[i-ni gu-um-mu-ru lu-ú ši-pir-ti] / lu-ú LÚv.A—KIN šá mdGIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P237185.
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/P237185/..
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/P237185/.
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