Similarities in treaty terminology (1)

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Esarhaddon’s Vassal Treatise 428, 551:
May Venus the brightest of the stars make your wives lie in the laps of your enemies before your very eyes … as the kids and lambs, male and female, are cut open and their entrails roll to their feet, so may the entrails of your sons and daughters roll to your feet.

Hittite Military Oath:
Then he pours out wine and says: “[This] is not wine, it is your blood, and [as the ea]rth has swallowed this, so shall the earth also sw[allow you]r [blood] and [ … ...].

Homer, Iliad 3.295-303:
(Agamemnon sacrifices a lamb and libates wine, while praying:) Zeus greatest and most glorious, and you other immortal gods, whichever side should first violate the oaths, so may their brains spill to the ground as this wine does, theirs and their children’s, and may their wives be take by others.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Hittite Military Oath
Homer, Iliad 3.295-303
Vassal Treatise, Esharhaddon 428
Vassal Treatise, Esharhaddon 551

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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