SAA 18 007. Treaty Between Elam and Assyria (CT 54 580)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	ši-pir-ti DUMU—⸢LUGAL⸣	(1) A message of the crown pr[ince] to Šulmu-beli-lu[šme].
o 22	a-na ^mšul-mu—EN^*—lu-[uš-me]	(1) A message of the crown pr[ince] to Šulmu-beli-lu[šme].
o 33	LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI u LUGAL KUR—aš-[šur.KI]	(3) Having listened to one another, the king of Elam and the king of As[syria] have made peace with one another at Marduk's command and become treaty partners. (Yet) you have detained there all the men of the country that came to the festival.
o 44	a-ḫa-meš ki-i il-te-nem^-⸢mu^⸣-[u]
o 55	ina a-mat ^dAMAR.UTU it-ti a-ḫa-meš
o 66	is-se-el-mu u a-na EN-MEŠ
o 77	a-de-e šá a-ḫa-meš it-tu-ra
o 88	ERIM-MEŠ KUR gab-bi ma-la
o 99	a-na i-sin-na il-li-ku-ni
o 1010	gab-bi a-kan-na tak-te-el [o]
o 1111	ana-ku a-mat LUGAL ki-i ⸢as-si^*⸣	(11) When I read the word of the king,
o 1212	ka-a-du u EN.[NUN]	(12) the outpost and the gar[rison]
o 1313	⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣.[KUR.RA-MEŠ]	(13) [... h]or[ses]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]
r 2'2'	i-se-⸢gu x⸣+[x x x]	(r 2) they went off [and] came [.... Since] you had detained [them], I sent a messen[ger] to you, but I have not heard an answer to my letter.
r 3'3'	il-li-ku-⸢ni⸣ [x x]
r 4'4'	tak-lu-ú LÚ.KIN.⸢GI₄⸣.[A]
r 5'5'	ki-i áš-pu-rak-ka gab-⸢ri⸣
r 6'6'	ši-pir-ti-ía ul áš-mi
r 7'7'	u en-na ^ma.a-ṣa-ar	(r 7) But now, Iaṣar and his family are the king's servants. They have run away to you. Send them to me quickly, and do not cast a shadow between the king of Elam and the king of Assyria!
r 8'8'	u LÚ.qin-ni-šú ARAD-MEŠ šá LUGAL
r 9'9'	šú-nu a-na pa-ni-ka iḫ-tal-qu-ni
r 10'10'	ḫa-an-ṭiš šup-raš-šú-nu-tim-ma
r 11'11'	e-kil^*-ti ina bi-rit
r 12'12'	LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI u LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI
r 13'13'	la ta-šak-kan LUGAL	(r 13) The king has sent a letter to [me], sayi[ng]: "Th[ey] must co[me]." So send t[hem q]uickly!
r 14'14'	ši-pir-ti a-na pa-⸢ni^*⸣-[ía]
r 15'15'	⸢il⸣-tap-ra um-⸢ma⸣
Right
r.e. 16r.e. 16	⸢lil^*-li⸣-[ku-ni]
r.e. 1717	⸢ḫa^-an^⸣-ṭiš^* šup-⸢raš⸣-[šú-nu-tú]

Adapted from Frances Reynolds, The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-šarru-iškun from Northern and Central Babylonia (State Archives of Assyria, 18), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2015-16, 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/P237546/.