SAA 02 005. Esarhaddon’s Treaty with Baal, King of Tyre (Ash pl. 3+)

(i 1) [The treat]y of Esarhad[don, king] of Assyria, son of [Sennacherib likewise king of Assyria, with Baa]l, king of Tyre, with [..., his son, and his other sons and grandsons, with a]ll [Tyrians], young and old [...

(i 5) or ...[......]

(i 6) or [......]

(i 7) or with [......]

(i 8) not[......]

(i 9) if [......] not ...[......]

(i 10) If Assyr[ia ......]

(i 11) ... you [......]...[......]

(ii 10) [......] according to [...]

(ii 11) [......] let [...]

(ii 12) [......] ...[...]

(ii 13) [...... t]o the ex[empt]

(iii 1) [......] from ... until [......]

(iii 2) [......] their [...]s; Esarhaddon, king of As[syria ......]

(iii 3) [......] will not [...] upon it [...]

(iii 4) [......] these [...]s and these cities which I destroyed [......]

(iii 5) you must not send nor desp[atch] the [... which] (may) come [...].

(iii 6) [If the royal deputy whom] I have appointed over you [...] anything in [...]

(iii 7) [...] the elders of your country [convene to take] counsel

(iii 8) the royal deputy [will ...] with them [......]

(iii 9) [......] of the ships [......]

(iii 10) (Break)

(iii 11) [You may not ... any ship ...] which comes to you; [if ......], do not listen to him, [do not ...] without the royal deputy; nor must you open a letter which I send you without the royal deputy. If the royal deputy is absent, wait for him and then open it, or [...] the messenger.

(iii 15) If there is a ship of Baal or the people of Tyre that is shipwrecked off the land of the Philistines or within Assyrian territory, everything that is on ship belongs to Esarhaddon, king of Assyria; however, one must not do any harm to any person on board the ship but one must return them all to their country.

(iii 18) These are the ports of trade and the trade routes which Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, [entrusted] to his servant Baal: to Akko, Dor, to the entire district of the Philistines, and to all the cities within Assyrian territory on the seacoast, and to Byblos, the Lebanon, all the cities in the mountains, all (these) being cities of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria.

(iii 22) Baal [may enter these] cities. The people of Tyre [will], in accordance with what Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, has per[mitted, stay] in their ships, and all those who enter into the towns of [...], his towns, his villages, his ports of trade which [...] for collecting [toll ...], and all (the places) in their outskirts, will [pay toll], as in the past.

(iii 27) Nobody will [do] injustice [to those] who are hired [...] and nobody will harm their ships. In the coun[try of ...], in his district, in his villages ...[...] the people of Sidon [...] as in the past [...

(iv 1) [May Mullissu, who resides in Nineveh, tie to you a flaming sword].

(iv 2) [May] Ištar, [who resides in Arbela, not grant] you [mercy and forgiveness].

(iv 3) May Gula, the great physician, [put illness and weariness in] your [hearts] and an unhealing sore in your body; bathe [in blood and pus as if in water]!

(iv 5) May the Pleiades, the heroic gods, [smi]te you [down] with their [fierce] weapons.

(iv 6) May Bethel and Anath-Bethel [deliver] you to the paws of a man-eating lion.

(iv 8) May the great gods of heaven and earth, the gods of Assyria, the gods of Akkad and the gods of Eber-nari curse you with an indissoluble curse.

(iv 10) May Baal Shamaim Baal Malagê and Baal Saaphon raise an evil wind against your ships to undo their moorings and tear out their mooring pole, may a strong wave sink them in the sea and a violent tide [rise] against you.

(iv 14) May Melqarth and Eshmun deliver your land to destruction and your people to deportation; may they [uproot] you from your land and take away the food from your mouth, clothes from your body, and the oil for your anointing.

(r.e. 18) May Astarte break your bow in the thick of battle and have you crouch at the feet of your enemy, may a foreign enemy divide your belongings.

(r.e. 20) Tablet of the treaty established with Baal of Tyre in [......].