Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty (SAA 2 6)
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §5
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Deuteronomy 5:7
The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §6
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§9–11
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Deuteronomy 13:1
The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §12
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §24
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§37–42
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§37–42
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§46–47
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§46–47
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §56
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§62–65
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§62–65
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§69–70
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §89
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§90–93
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§90–93
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The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon §§96–97
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Ezekiel 37:7
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Summary
Date: 672 BCE
Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, made the people of his empire swear this oath in 672 BCE, and with it they promised to support his son Assurbanipal as the next king of Assyria and Assurbanipal's brother Šamaš-šumu-ukin as king of Babylon. The oath was sworn by the gods and secured by a long list of curses on anyone who broke it, and it is the longest Assyrian treaty known. At least ten copies survive, each sworn by a different vassal or province. Eight were found in the 1950s in the throne room of the temple of Nabu at Kalhu (Nimrud), all of them imposed on peoples east of Assyria, and a copy excavated in 2009 at Tell Tayinat in modern Turkey, once the capital of an Assyrian province, is evidence that Assyrians took the oath as well as subject peoples. The text was first published as the "Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon" and is now usually called Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty.
Jonathan Taylor, "The Succession Treaties of Esarhaddon," Nimrud: Materialities of Assyrian Knowledge Production (The Nimrud Project at Oracc.org, 2019), oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/livesofobjects/successiontreaties.
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