Neo-Assyrian

“(1) [To the king], my [lord]: your servant Pan-Aššur-[lamur. Good] health to the king, [my] lord! (3) [As to what] the king my lord wrote to me: "[The day] you see this [lett]er of mine, [...... (Break) (r.e. 2) Later I [...] (my) chariot [......] about the food [......] I/they have left [......].”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334709/

“(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant Pan]-Aššur-lam[ur. Good heal]th to [the king, my lord]! (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313938/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-a[šared]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) 1 big golden box, 1 golden plate, 3 crests of white silver, 1 box of gold scraps, 2 golden goblets, 4 firewood containers (with) golden (weighing) stones, 1 ... overlaid with gold, 1 bronze washing bowl, silver tableware, 1 box containing 153 silver bowls, 1 box (with) 25 bowls of ... silver and 26 silver ...; (r 1) 1 lion's head (rhyton) of silver, [...... (r 2) (Break) (r 6) 1 golden [......], 1 [......], [...] golden [...... (r 7) (Break) (r 12) ... I have just] sent [to] the king, my lord.”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313416/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Salmanu-[...]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king my lord told [me]: "Nobody will pay back your loans until the work on Dur-Šarruken is finished!" — (9) (Now) they have ref[unded] to the merchants (loans on) the portion of Dur-Šarruken that has been constructed, but nobody [has reminded] (the king) about me; 570 minas of silver with [my seal] and due this year have not been repaid as yet. (16) When the king, my lord, sold gold and pre[cious stones] on my account, I told the king, my lord, that my father was much in debt to Har[...], Huziru…”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334910/

“(1) [To the king, my lord]: yo[ur servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! (4) [I] stood [alongside] the king's road, [in fron]t of the gardens, but the king did not pay attention to me, speaking as he was with Raṣappai. I went to the city of Adian and spoke with the rab mūgi officer, but nobody came to greet me so I became scared. (r 4) Now, I have collected 500 homers (= 100,000 litres) of barley in the city of Kilizi, and would like to deliver it. If the king my lord commands: "Collect barley for three palaces," I will collect it in Adian and Arbela as well. (e. 1) The barley has not been piled up; they [......], I [......] Ṣilli-Bel [......]”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334588/

“(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good health] to the king, [my lord]! (Break) (r 1) Now, what (orders) does the king, my lord, send? Let me go [to pile] up [the bar]ley I have collected, [until] my word [has arri]ved ......].”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313874/

“(1) [To the kin]g of (all) lands, our lord: [your servants] the recruitment officers [responsible for horse]s. Good health [to the king], ou[r lord]! (4) As to what the king our lord [wrote to us]: "Man[y ......" (Break) (r 4) ......] our [work ......] what[ever ...] it be [... we shall not be ne]gligent, the watch [... will be st]rict.”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334689/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [I se]nt [...] to the [...], saying: "[As regards ...], you are not free but shall arrange [......]. [Give] men to your official; one of the magnate[s] should quickly go with them and [keep] guard over the other bull colossus instead of the one which has been put in place. (r 3) And the bull coloss[i] which are in [... (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334895/