Neo-Assyrian

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. Good health [to the king, my lord]! May Aššur, Bel, and [Nabû] giv[e you length of days]! (5) [... is] in Muṣ[aṣir]; [the rest of] the governors [......]. (8) As to the news of the Urarṭ[ian], the brother of Urzan[a] has c[ome t]o Šulmu-beli, [saying]: "He has returned [...]" (Break) (r 2) I shall set it up [in the ...] of the [...] palace. (r 3) I am in the city of [...], working on the [...]. The ki[ng, my lord], can be glad.”

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/P334698/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [NN]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (3) The king, my lord, knows that [...], the god of our [...] is ... upon [the Hargaean]s. They are [the king] my lord's (people). (6) [They ......], they perform the labour duty, they [have] submitted [to ...]. Their [...] have been utterly destroyed, their [......] (Break) (12) The king, my lord, [... mu]ch; (13) [...] of Hargu is indebted [...]. (14) The deputy of the palace herald has (already) received from him [x mi]nas of silver [in] the middle of Arbela. Now, ag[ai]n, they say: "3,6[00 person]s are dying…”

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/P334825/

“(1) [To the king], my lord, [your servant At]anha-Šamaš. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! (4) The Palace should hold back the merchant [Atarha]m (who) is [in Habr]uri. (6) Earlier, before my time, he used to go to Hargu and collect his money [...] there. (When) they made [... the]re, I arrested him, saying: (10) ["Did not] the crown prince, our lord, rule [lik]e this: 'Nobody shall put [bought] men up for sale in a trade colony?' [W]hy then have you put bought men up for sale [at one m]ina each?" (15) [Last ye]ar, when the king my lord was not yet enthroned, [he had already put a bo]ught…”

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/P313474/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ata]nha-[Šamaš. Good health t]o the king, [my] lord! (4) [As to the ...]naean(s) [about whom they wrote] me [from the Palace]: "In Arbela [...] the palace (8) [... the cou]rtyard of the palace (9) [...] seized 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/P314049/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) These words that the king, my lord, wrote me about Pihame, the deputy (governor), about the garrisons, about the reports, and about prompting the works — the king, my lord, did greatly ... his servant! (10) [...] the major-domo whom the king, [my lord] (11) [......] (12) [As to the Itu']eans [about whom the king, my lord, wrote] me, I shall appoint them to [...] the garrisons, to [the ... of] the village inspectors, t[o the ... o]f the towns, and t[o the fort]s. (18) [The king], my lord, can be glad…”

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/P334555/

“(1) [To] the king, [my] lo[rd: your servant] Aššur-alik-[pani. Good] health to the king, [my lord]! (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)”

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/P334557/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what Bel-iddina said in the presence of the king, my lord: "The [...]s [...] to the depu[ty ...]," (7) he [......] (8) I [......] (Break) (r 2) whether the [...s res]pect [their] government and are devoted to it ... (r 5) Let me come and speak with this man in the king my lord's presence.”

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/P334558/

“(1) To the king, m[y] lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pan[i]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! (4) On the 5th day Aššur-bel-[...] came [to my presence] and communicated [us] the or[der] which the king, [my] lo[rd], gav[e] him about [...]: (10) "[......] (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/P334559/