Neo-Assyrian

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) ......] the son of [......] 200 m[en ...] of Tarṣ[i-...] a kin[sman of ...] are indeed [...] at the foot of [Mt. ...]; stranglers [......] in Mt. Nipur. (10) Ammili'ti [...] is encamped outside the city of Rablâ, pestilence-stricken. He came to see me and I [asked him]: "Did [...] really come from [......? Let ...] come to me, I shall not place [...] in it." (r 7) What the king [......] a messenger [...... (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)”

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/P313614/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The watch of the des[ert is strict]; the king, my lord, can be [pleased]. (6) The king my lord ordered [me to] give bread to the chariot troops. Now, (when) [PN] came, I told him [...] but he said: "The king has given orders to me and I will take two [month's worth] of each (provision)." I did not agree to give it to him, so he went and opened a silo in one of my villages, brought in his measurers and poured out [x] sound men's worth of (grain). (15) I went and remonstrated him, saying: "Why did you self-…”

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/P334715/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) Right now [......] perhaps [......] the fodder which [...... he]re. (5) [......] is demanding the food of the chariot troops saying: "You will give food [......]!" The king [my lord knows that we reaped our] s[own fields] together and st[ored] (the yield) in the villages. Mine is on [...] side, and they do not a[gree to give away] (any of) theirs, saying: "[You will] not [touch] our harvest." (13) Whether [......] or not [......]. When [......], 700 (homers) of [......] they reaped [......] their sown fields. (r 5) I do want to [feed] the king my lord's hors[es], but all the same they should not introduce [their] chariot troops and their horses [......]. The towns [...... (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/P314297/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant ...]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (3) As to these people, [the king's] subjects, about whom the king my lord wrote to me, none of them are their servants. The king, my lord, should question these people who came: not a single man among them is a farmer, they are their litigants and creditors, relatives of the (king) of Carchemish. They will write down their report and communicate it to the Palace. (12) Now, people have got afraid at the king their lord's ilku duty [and grumbled]: "Why are they [persecuting] us month after month?" They keep…”

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/P334830/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-ibni. [Good health] to the king, my lord. (4) [As to] the eunuchs [of] the household of Aššur-ilai [about whom the king] wrote to me: "[Let them br]ing them here!" — (8) I have just sent to the palace with a kallapu messenger [a total of four] eunuchs: [Urda]-Issar, a cupbearer; Ṣilli-Šamaš, a confectioner; Bel-deni-amur, a cook; and [P]atamû, a eunuch. (r 5) Let the king my lord question them. They are subjects of the city of Til-Barsip.”

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/P334209/

“(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Adad-ibni. [Good health t]o the king, my lord. (4) [As to what] the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The chief masons and ...] men from the city of Nampigi [in] the Qipanu land [have come] to me saying: 'The chief [......' (Rest destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)”

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/P334210/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your [serva]nt Inurta-il[ai]. (Break) (r 1) ......] have cr[ossed] the river on [the ...th] of Nisan and [left] for the Palace to greet (the king).”

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/P313904/

“(Beginning destroyed) (5) [x eld]ers accompanied by [x] mul[es], [x do]nkeys and [PN], the son of the (royal) delegate; (Break with traces of numbers and personal names) (r 1) Five [...] 30 [...... have set out] from Til-Barsip on [the ...th of Nisan], crossed the river and left for [the Palace] to greet (the king).”

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/P314316/