이스탄불 고고학박물관 - '군인들의 맹세' 점토판

이스탄불 고고학박물관 - '군인들의 맹세' 점토판

 

THE SOLDIER’S OATH

Clay

Hattusa(Bogazkoy)

Hittite Empire, BC 13세기

Hittite

 

Describes the ceremony of the oath taken by the Hittite soldier’s and the cursing of those who fail to keep the oath.

The section concerning the curse as follows : “Whoever breaks these oath, betrays the king of the Hatti land, and turns his eyes in hostile fashing upon the Hatti land, let these oaths aeize him! Let them blind this man’s army and make it deaf! Let them not see each other, let them not here each other! Let them make a cruel fate their lot!... And then he places sinews and salt in their hands. He throws them on a pan and speaks follows : ”Just as these sinews split into fragments on the hearth, and just as the salt is scattered on the hearth, whoever breaks these oaths, shows disrespect to the king of the Hatti land, and turns his eyes in hostile fashing upon the Hatti land, let these oaths seize him! Let him split into fragments like the sinews, let him be zcattered like the salt! Just as salt has no seed, even so let that man’s name, seed, house, cattle and sheep perish!...“.

 

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