Neo-Assyrian

“(1) [To] the governor, [my lo]rd: your servant Nabû-dammiq. Good health to my lord! (5) The Chief Confectioner says: "I (and) Šulmu-beli-l[ašme will ret]urn to the city of [......" (Rest 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/P428858/

“(1) [To the king, my lord]: your servant [Nabû-dammiq]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the trunks about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, they told me in the Palace: "I will send a man with you, he will go and select the trunks and trim them," up until now he has not showed up. I am waiting [for him] right now [...... (Break) (r 2) ......] he should come; if there are any, we should trim them and lay them aside. Their water should be drawn out so that we can lift them for our use.”

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/P334792/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your [servant] Nabû-dammiq. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) As to the men about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, I am right now sending to the king my lord three men: Agbur son of Adda-šumki, Milki-[...] son of [...], and Labarmû son of Appâ. They are from Sinu, not from Hamath.”

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/P334214/

“(Beginning destroyed) (3) [While] I was there, I sent two teams of horses to Nemed- Ištar and two to Sinu, but they did not get there. The king my lord will kill me (when) he hears (this). Really [...... (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/P313627/

“(1) [A letter from Nabû-damm]iq to [...]ti-Bel. [Good he]alth to my lord! (4) [Ta]bni-ilu has come here; he has been summoned for Nabû-šezib and should speak in the presence of the crown prince. (7) Bring me barley and sesame! Why do you take away the barley? To whom do you distribute it? I alone am being excluded from it! ...... (r 1) [......] in the presence of the crown prince [...... (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/P314273/

“(1) To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Mannu-k[i-Aššur-le'i]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (4) As to what the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "[Make a list of all] the natives of Kumme [who] hold [houses in your district, and resettle them]!" — (5) I have enquired and investigated (and found that) the entire [......] in the city of [Zarana]. I have written to every single place [......] (and found that) just along the king's road, [there is] one [......]. It is unsuitable for passing [......]. (12) Perhaps the king, my lord, (now) says: "[Why] did you tarr[y] until now?" [I ...ed] the…”

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/P313417/

“(Beginning destroyed) (11) "in the presence of [......] (12) "deported [...... of] (13) "the district and the governo[r ......] (14) "from there [......] (15) "he went [...]. No[w ...... of] (16) "his country [...] shipment[s ...] (17) "shipments [......] (18) "to the governor [......] (19) "700 m[en ......] (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/P313699/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Taklak-ana-Bel. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to Ilu-pija-uṣur the shepherd about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "You have removed him from the office of cohort commander! Why did you tell him to exact a talent of silver?" — (9) indeed I have not removed him, he is (still) a cohort commander! Dugul-pan-ili is with the king my lord; let the king my lord ask him if he is not a cohort commander! (12) When Dugul-pan-ili went to the shearing, that person stole his (sheep) dues; he did not come in to the shearing but fled and took refuge in a…”

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/P334903/