Neo-Assyrian

“(1) A letter from Arihu to Nabû-duri-uṣur. Good health to my lord! (4) As to the corn tax of the Samarians, my lord should send a notice whether it exists or not, and let us be content with that. The officials are passive, they keep where they are, they don't go to do their work, nor can we give them orders. (r 4) I have been petitioning you since last year until now in this very manner about the income, but we have not brought in any income whatever. Now send a notice whether it exists or not!”

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/P334789/

“(1) To Nabû-duri-uṣur, my lord: your servant Rimutte. Good health to my lord! (4) They wrote to me from the Palace: "Write down all the locusts that you collect and all that you kill, and send (the information) to the Palace!" Now then I am writing it down and sending it to my lord. (10) [x] homers (at) the city of Apku including its villages, [...]... as well as [...] the village ......[...]; (13) 15 homers (= 3,000 litres) (at) the city of [...]banu [including its villages; x] homers (at) the city of Ṭabtaia [...... (Break) (r 1) ......] between [......]. When they were few, we collected…”

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/P334621/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnuhu-beli-uṣur. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the saplings about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have pulled up 1,000 apple-tree saplings from where [there were] 3 or [......]. (9) A royal bo[dyguard ...... (Rest destroyed) (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/P334634/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnuha-[beli-uṣur]. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king, my lord, knows that the Šadikanneans are hirelings; they work for hire all over the king's lands. They are no runaways; the perform the ilku duty and supply king's men from their midst. The king [...... (Break) (r 7) May [the king my lord] not give [such] a command! Otherwise, let the king my lord command that each should go to his government department — the army must not be weakened, not a single man [should be missing] from the campaign, they should all together come t[o 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/P313502/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Samnu[ha-beli-uṣ]ur. (3) Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king's work has become a burden to me. [I released] my [me]n in early winter, but those who were released entered strongholds in order to evade the king's work. [O king my lo]rd, let a royal bodyguard be commissioned to bring them out, and let them do the king's [work]. (14) Samnuhu-bessunu, a citizen of Šadikanni (r 1) [......] holds [...; ...] have passed into the possession of the people of Kannu'.”

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/P334610/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... ox]en [...] (2) [... th]ere is/are (3) [...] Šadikannean (4) [...] ... (5) [...] yet (6) [...] ... (7) [...] ... (8) [...] seize you (9) [...] takes (r 1) [...] the Aššur temple (r 2) [...] the land of Halzi (r 3) [...] oxen (r 4) [...] man (r 5) [...] asked (r 6) [...] there (r 7) [...] Whatever (r 8) [the kin]g my lord (r 9) [sa]ys.”

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/P313807/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-dammiq. Good health to the king! (9) I have imposed on the (people) of Nemed-Ištar 2,350 bundles of apple trees and 450 bundles of medlar trees, in all 2,[800] bundles; on the [...]th of Šebat (XI) I returned ... to Dur-Šarruken. (13) [Na]nî and the (ruler) of Suhu [have come] to me; Ahu-illika and [Zab]ina-Il are with them. They are collecting saplings of almond, quince and plum trees and transporting them to Dur-Šarruken. (r 6) The Suhaean and the local people are also bringing saplings from the country of Laqê — 1,000 bundles of apple trees; their vanguard has arrived and I have seen it, but their rearguard has not yet arrived.”

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/P334567/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-dammiq. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote [to me]: "Go straight away to Nemed-Ištar, and when the time is right for extracting cedar and cypress saplings, [let] the Chief Confectioner [...... (Break) (r 1) [Adad-ib]ni has made the seeds ready, and he has also equipped the men. (r 3) Now, if the king my lord commands, I will come and perform the ablution ritual, so when the Chief Confectioner comes, I (can) go with him, and we shall pull up and bring the cedars and cypresses. Whatever the king my lord commands.…”

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/P334568/