Chapter 07 · 911 – 609 BCE
Neo-Assyrian
Empire, library, terror, scholarship.
~715 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
SAA 01 212. (no title) (CT 53 562)
“(Beginning destroyed) (1) in Hi[ndana ......] (2) When I [was ...] in the king my lord's presence, [the king my lord] said to [his servant] as follows: "[...] to the city of [......] not [...... (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/P313974/
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SAA 01 213. (no title) (CT 53 851)
“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] the offici[als] (2) [......] will assemble (3) [......] I will go [to S]uhu (4) [......] I will return (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/P314260/
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SAA 01 214. On Išmanni-Aššur (CT 53 441)
“(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ila['i-Bel]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (4) Išmanni-Aššur the [...... (Break) (r.e. 1) ...] no luck [...] horse [......]”
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/P313854/
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SAA 01 215. A Groom at a Drinking Place (ABL 0933)
“(1) A letter from Ila'i-Bel [to] Nabû-duru-uṣur. [Good] health to my lord! (4) Tarriki-hallu, a trainer of [...] horses [is] on the dr[inking place wh]ich my lord ask[ed for]; a messenger [of my lord] should come [and ...]. (10) Another matter: the sealed documents [...... (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/P334631/
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SAA 01 216. Gardeners (ABL 0182)
“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Išmanni-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the gardeners about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, right now Adad-nuri [...... (Break) (r 2) ......] saw ... (SPACER)”
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/P334127/
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SAA 01 217. (no title) (ABL 0723)
“(1) [To the king, my lord]: your [servan]t Išmanni-[Aššur. Good] health to the [king], m[y lord]! (5) [As to] what the king, [my lord, wrote to me ...... (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/P334512/
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SAA 01 218. (no title) (CT 53 848)
“(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Išm[anni-Aššur]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (4) As to what the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "The servants [...] of the son of Za[baba-... have ...ed] eight minas [of ...] entrusted to [......]," — (9) two men [...... (Break) (r 2) Let him give to [the] king's men [......] 30 persons [......] one mina and ten [shekels of ...] retur[ned ......] agree [......]. (r 8) The king should decide between [......] and eight [minas of ...].”
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/P314257/
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SAA 01 219. Arrival of Deportees (ABL 0325)
“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant(s) Aplaiu, Šarru-lu-dari and Išmanni-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) The deportees [arrived] on the 10th of Tammuz (IV); the horses [......] fodder [......] in our towns. (10) The harvest of the deportee[s ...] had come out well; they brought along all the food they had. The deportees and the pack animals are eating stored grain [...] like the king's servants. (16) The deportees and the pack animals are [well]; the king, my lord, [can be] pleased.”
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/P334211/
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