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The Seal of Destinies (1)

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 		Keywords
Tablet of Destinies
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
Vassal Treaties, Esarhaddon, Sealing C:
The Seal of Destinies, with [which] Aššur, king of the gods, seals the destinies of the Igigi and Anunnaki of heaven and underworld, and of mankind. Whatever he seals he will not alter. Whoever would alter it may Aššur, king of the gods, and Mullissu, together with their children, slay him with their terrible weapons! I am Sennacherib, king of [Assyria,], the prince who reveres you - whoever erases my inscribed name or discards this, your Seal of Destinies, erase from the land his name and seed!

Source (list of abbreviations)
Vassal Treaties, Esarhaddon, Sealing C

Bibliography

George 1986, 140-141George, Andrew R. “Sennacherib and the Tablet of Destinies.” Iraq 48 (1986) 133-146. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus


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