Neo-Assyrian

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) E[...], a subordinate of A[riye], and Babisu[...], a subordinate of Ariaz[â]; he did not capture th[em] in the mountain [......] (Break) (r 1) [They] have been arrested ... [...], and I am herewith sending [them] to the king, [my lord].”

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/P313585/

“(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Gabbu-ana-Aššur]. (3) As to the message [which I got]: "Why [are the beams late]?" — (5) up to now [...], Aššur-reṣuw[a, the ...ean], the Kummean, [the ...ean], the Babutean, [the ...ean], the Ukkean, the I[l...ean], the Uliean, the Meṣa[ean], in all 10 city lords have hauled (the beams) to me (over a distance of) two stag[es], while I had to haul them for the third stage alone! (15) By the gods of the king, my lord, the day that the beams came to me, the [...] (official) did not leave me; (I swear) the [beams] are on the [river] ba[nk] ..., but 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/P313450/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) Stone thresholds and bull colossi are imposed upon me, but the people of the country totally refuse to g[o forth] to my wor[k], saying: "Are we [your] men?" (r 1) They do not lis[ten to me] — am I [...]? (r 3) These (people) unanimously and categorically disobey me in every possible way.”

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/P334073/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) All the straw in my country is reserved for Dur-Šarruken, and my recruitment officers are now running after me (because) there is no straw for the pack animals. (9) Now, what are the king my lord's instructions?”

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/P334070/

“(1) [To the king], my [lo]rd: your [serva]nt Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) Whatever reed there is in our country, the royal bodyguard is ...ing over it. (8) [Let] them leave me the booty of the (depot) tower. There are no reeds for my tower.”

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/P334072/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) As to the people of Arzâ about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "I have given you the people entered on the writing-board, the cohort which I formed; these are at your disposal. However, give Arzâ the rest of the people whose (names) I [did n]ot write in the writing-board" — (15) There are no people not on the writing-board at my disposal! In fact, from [the peop]le in the writing-[board whom] the king, my lord, gave me, [x] are at his disposal! (r 3) When the king's messenger c[ame] with me to Kurba[il] (Break) (r 10) After this,…”

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/P334069/

“(1) To [the king, my lord: your] servant [NN]. Go[od health to the king, my lord]! (Break) (6) with me [......] (7) gave me the oxen and sheep [......] (9) neither wine [nor ......] (10) from [......] (11) which [......] (12) oxen [......] (Break) (16) t[o ......] (17) my lord [......]. (r 1) The king, my lord, sh[ould] posthaste [send] a [......]; by what means can I [...]? The one-ye[ar-old] mares that I have [......]. (r 6) Now, an offi[cial of mine] is leaving with a scribe; let them enter into the presence of the king, my lord, and let the king, my lord, ask them what I/he/they left in the fort. (r 11) May the king, my lord, not say: "I appointed him, and he did not achieve (anything)!"”

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/P313552/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) "If the 1st day [is ...], we shall get there and fetch it together." (5) Now, what are the king my lord's instructions?”

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/P314268/