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SAA 02 013. A Vassal Treaty (JCS 39 175)

~685 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336220

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 2
High confidence
(Beginning destroyed) (ii 2) [...] him. (ii 3) You will not make peace [with] him (ii 4) nor make [common cause] with him, (ii 5) but will fe[ar] me (ii 6) and do what is [good] to me. (ii 7) [If] you do what is good to me, (ii 8) all [Ar]abia [... (ii 9) (Break) (ii 11) [Should] I march (ii 12) [...] against you (ii 13) [...] his mouth (ii 14) [...] keeping at a distance from you (ii 15) [...] you will bring forth (ii 16) [...] is set to him (ii 17) [... let them] make difficult (ii 18) [...] one of your servants (ii 19) [...] another country (ii 20) [...] ... (iii 1) You will send no…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]-ka-šú / [is-si]-šú ⸢la⸣ ta-⸢sa-lim⸣ / [pi-i] ⸢is⸣-si-šú ⸢la⸣ ta-šá-kan / [ta]-pa-⸢làḫ⸣-[an]-ni / ⸢SIG₅⸣-ia te-⸢pa⸣-áš-⸢ma⸣ / [šum-ma] ⸢SIG₅-ia⸣ te-ta-pa-áš / [x x x KUR?.a?]-⸢ru⸣-bu gab-bu / [x x x x x x]-bu / [x x x x x x]-di-u / [šum-ma a-na-ku ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-ka / [x x x x x] ⸢al⸣-lak / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bi pi-i-šú / [x x x x x] ⸢TA⸣ IGI-ka pa-ti-u-ni / [x x x…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian treaty or loyalty oath, edited by Simo Parpola & Kazuko Watanabe (SAA 2, 1988). Binding agreement invoking divine sanction. ORACC text P336220.

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/P336220/..
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/P336220/.

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