Hittite Military Oath
1500
Describes the ceremony of the oath taken by the Hittite soldiers and the cursing of those who fail to keep the oath. Here's what these sections say:
“Whoever breaks these oaths, betrays the king of the Hatti land, and turns his eyes in hostile fashion upon the Hatti land, let these oaths seize him! Let them blind this man's army and make it deaf! Let them not see each other, let them not hear each other! Let them make a cruel fate of 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 fashion upon the Hatti land, let these oaths Seize him! Let him split into fragments like the sinews, let him be scattered like the salt! Just as salt has no seed, even so let that man's name, seed, house, cattle and sheep perish!”