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SAA 02 015. Tell Tayinat Version of Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty (JCS 64 091)
Translation · reference
High confidence(i_T_1) Seal of the god Aššur, king of the gods, lord of the lands — [not to be altered]; seal of the great ruler, father of the gods — not to be disputed. (1_T_i_1) The treaty of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, with the governor of Kunalia, with the deputy, the major-domo, the scribes, the chariot drivers, the third men, the village managers, the information officers, the prefects, the cohort commanders, the charioteers, the cavalrymen, the exempt, the outriders, the specialists, the shi[eld bearers (?)], the craftsmen, (and) with [all] the men [of his…
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/P500551/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB da-šur₄ LUGAL DINGIR-MEŠ / EN KUR.KUR ša [la šu-un-né-e] / [NA₄].KIŠIB ⸢NUN-e GAL-e⸣ AD DINGIR-MEŠ / ša ⸢la pa⸣-qa-a-ri / a-de-e ša maš-šur—PAB—AŠ MAN KUR—aš-šur / DUMU md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU MAN KUR—aš-šur / TA LÚ.EN.NAM KUR.ku-na-⸢li⸣-a / TA LÚ.2-e LÚ.GAL—É / ⸢LÚ.A⸣.BA-MEŠ LÚ.DIB-PA-MEŠ LÚ.03.U₅-MEŠ / LÚ.GAL—URU-MEŠ LÚ.mu-tir—ṭè-me / LÚ.GAR-nu-MEŠ LÚ.GAL-ki-ṣir-MEŠ / LÚ.EN—GIŠ.GIGIR-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 P500551.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Jacob Lauinger, 2012 ("Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty at Tell Tayinat: Text and Commentary," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 64, 87–123). 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/P500551/..
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/P500551/.
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