Neo-Assyrian

“(1) [To] the king, [my lord]: your [se]rvant Ašipâ. [T]he [be]st of health to the ki[ng], my lord! (5) The fo[rts] and the land of the king, [my] lo[rd], are well. (7) As to the saplin[gs] concerning which the king, my lord, wr[ote me], (9) since the orde[r] was given to me, I have pulled up ...... of plum and apple trees [......] (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334351/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. The best of health to the king, my lord! (5) The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. (7) Last year, the king, my lord, told me: "[S]end me red wool!" (10) Now then Metu[nu ......] (Break) (r 3) have been brought [to me].”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334296/

“(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Ašipâ]. The [best] of he[alth] to the king, [my lord]! (5) The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. (8) As to the hewn [...] stone about which the king, [my] lo[rd], gave [me] orders, (r 3) I am no[w] se[nding] to the ki[ng, my lord], four tal[ents] of he[wn ...] stone.”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334642/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ]. The be[st] of hea[lth to the king], my lord! (5) The fo[rts and the land] of the king, [my] lo[rd], are well. Al[l] the borde[rs of the country ......] (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P313743/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. The best of health to the king, my lord! (4) The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. (6) As to the news of the priest of Penzâ about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "What did the king of Urarṭu send and decree for him about the official of [Ta]si? They should ask [...]" — (13) [......] the king, my lord, (14) [......] the royal bodyguard (15) [......] the messengers (16) [of the governor] of Pulua (17) [......] of Alzunu (18) [have co]me [... and arbitrated be]tween [... and] his brothers. (20) [With] clean [hands], the…”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P393858/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. The best of health to the king, my lord! (5) The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. (7) I sent two eunuchs of mine with six soldiers and a seal(ed order) for the deserters in Penzâ; they went off with two cohort commanders and had the men brought down. (13) They had dinner there; the brother of the Šubrian (king) too dined with them there. (16) They set out together and were on their way home, when the Šubrians attacked them from an ambush and captured my two eunuchs and the six soldiers. Both of my cohort commanders…”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334084/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. [The best] of health to the king, [my lord]! (4) The for[ts] and the land of the king, [my] lo[rd], are well. (6) When I wr[ote] to the king, my lord, that the king of Šu[b]ria had captured [my men], the king, my lord, [wrote me back]: (9) "Capt[ure] his men in eq[ual number] to your men, [until] he releases [them]." (12) [...] I took [......] (Break) (r 1) As to what [I wrote] to the king, my lord: "They have se[lected] 500 roof-beams [in the territory] of the Urarṭian " — (r 4) [now] my 'third man' who did the s[election] has felled…”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334498/

“(1) [To the ki]ng, [my] lord: [your servant] Ša-Aššur-dubbu. The best [of health] to the king, my lord! (4) The forts and [the land of the king, my lord, are well]. (5) [As to the ne]ws of the Ur[arṭian(s) about which the king, my lord, wrote] me: "Inquire (about it)!" — (7) I have (already) sent [a detailed report to] the king, my lord, [......]! Let me [no]w [send it] for a second time. (9) [A Šubri]an with two [......] (10) [......] a eunuch [......] (Break) (20) "[We did] not [...] you, so we deserted." (21) They spoke w[i]th them as follows: "[......] has occurred in the house of your…”

Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P313510/