Chapter 07 · 911 – 609 BCE
Neo-Assyrian
Empire, library, terror, scholarship.
~715 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
SAA 05 068. Chariot Troops from Que (CT 53 040)
“(1) To [the king], my lord: your servant [Na'di]-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the chariot troops from Que about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Enquire and investigate, and if they [have no] food and seed, write me" — (9) the people [...] who are with them [......] (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/P313455/
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SAA 05 069. On an Army Unit (CT 53 125)
“(1) To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to my army unit about which my lord wrote me: "Your unit should be placed at the head of your ...!" — (7) now the gods of the [kin]g have taken action: when the king, [my] lo[rd appoin]ted me, [......] to mo[ve on]. (11) Otherwise, [......] to Kiṣ[ir-Aššur]. (13) As to the wor[k ...] about which the king w[rote me], there is no [...]; the ki[ng ......]. The king, [my lord, can be] gl[ad]. (Break) (r 5) Further, they will make the oxen stand in position before all the magnates who are coming.”
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/P313540/
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SAA 05 070. Fragment Referring to Oxen (ABL 1018)
“(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Na'di-[ilu]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! (4) As to the oxen entrusted in m[y] charge about which the king, my lord, [gave me or]ders [......] (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/P334679/
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SAA 05 071. An Axe Maker from Damascus (ABL 0193)
“(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) As to Šimkaya, the axe [m]aker from Damascus whom [the king], my lord, wrote me about, I am herewith sending him to the king, my [lo]rd, in the charge of my messenger.”
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/P334138/
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SAA 05 072. Returning from the River (CT 53 852)
“(1) [To the kin]g, [my] lo[rd: your servant] Na'di-[ilu. Good hea]lth t[o the king, my lord]! (4) [As to] the I[tu'eans who return]ed [fr]om the ri[ver Euphrates ......] (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/P314261/
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SAA 05 073. (no title) (CT 53 729)
“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my [lo]rd! (4) [......] (6) [......] is bringing (7) [...... on the ...th] day (8) [......] Šabirešu (9) [... ente]red (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/P314139/
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SAA 05 074. Mule Express not Available (NL 062)
“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mahdê. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) (As to) the mule express that we provide and the royal bodyguard who com[es] citing a royal order that he should go as far as Šabirešu — he has used up the [...] in my possession! (6) The king, my lord, knows that I do not main[tain] a team (to go) as far as Šabirešu; the ones that go do not return. My teams are used up; the king, my lord, should know (this). (r 2) We let the teams from Calah go by; my chariot, my team and [my] [dri]ver went (with) Nabû'a the bodyguard as far as Šabirešu, and those of Šabirešu le[t them go] by. (r 6) Let the king, my lord, inve[stigate]; let him send word that I come, and I shall come on foot! I have no chariot, no team, no driver!”
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/P224392/
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SAA 05 075. News from Šubria (ABL 0987)
“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mahdê. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the Šubrian [emiss]ary about which [the king, my lord, wro]te me: " [......] (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/P334663/
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