Neo-Assyrian

“(Beginning destroyed) (8) [......] my messenger (9) [...... the b]order[s] (10) [......] the king, [my lord] (Break) (r 1) [......] Arrapha (r 2) [......] they [should] provide (r 3) [......] (r 4) [......] the chariot (r 5) [...... g]ave (r 6) [......] (r 7) [...] I have given [...]”

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/P313833/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [As] to the [......] (3) mihru tree [......] (4) Arraphaeans [......] (5) the beams which to [......] (6) poplar tree [......] (7) I have fetched 200 beams [......] (Break) (r 1) from their midst [......] (r 2) let them give me [......] (r 3) in early [......] (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/P313758/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] standing [in ......] (3) [I told] him: "Send me one [of] your subjects, to stay in my presence," but he has not agreed to send me one. (8) As to Raṣappayu, the official concerning whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Release him, and let him serve with you!" I have written to the household overseer of the [governor o]f Calah, but he has not [agreed] to release [him, so I have] not [hired] him. (Break) (r 3) [As t]o [......], I am b[ringing] 25 log[s ... t]o the river. [The l]ogs [......] (Break) (r 9) [...] Isanaeans [......] opposite me will pick up [the logs]. (r 12) [Should the king] say: "[There are l]ogs piled up in [Isa]na," [I have se]nt [...]-iddina for [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/P313541/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] the trees which are at [my/his] disposal [...] (3) [...] the river (4) [they b]rought (5) [...] Tabal (6) [...] he has piled up [...] (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/P313981/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good heal]th t[o the king, my lord]! (2) [As] to the sheep of [... about which the king, my lord], wrote [me]: "Why do [yo]u withhold the sheep fr[om ...]?" — (5) it is the king, [my] lo[rd], who has wi[thheld] the [sh]eep for his gods! If he does not add to them, (how) can I hold back their shepherds? (9) Nabû-zeru-iddina had an audience with me, saying: "Ša-ili-dubbu has driven away [she]ep; 1,300 ṣu'bu sheep (13) [...] these [......] (Break) (r 1) [...-ya]da' sa[id to them]: "[Co]me and graze!" (r 3) [Let ... give] them or[ders; i]f it pleases…”

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/P334831/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] are being fed. I have wr[itten ab]out these sheep of the scholars, which came forth from Dur-Yakin; they have entrusted them to the commanders-of-ten to whom the Dur-Yakinites are entering, saying: (8) "Appoint two men each from among them to graze them, until your brothers come and give them out." (r 2) Now that the king gave the command, we shall receive them from all of them. (r 4) As to the attendant of the treasurer about whom the king, my lord, said: "He should come" — (r 6) the copper which is being refined by the servants of the magnates, (as well as) the ... are at his disposal, and I have been in Nineveh. (r 10) I have now received him and sent him [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/P334595/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The gov]ern[or of ...] has as[ked me] for 100 oxen; the governor of Si['immê] has asked me for 200 oxen and 2,000 sheep. Now, i[f] the king, [my] lo[rd] ord[ers, ......] (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/P313930/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) I pa[rceled out] a plot [of x hectares of field in ...] and gave (it) [to them ...]. (4) They had no seed corn [whatever] there, (so) they took 100 (homers) of barley [from ...] instead of [their] seed corn. (r 1) [The ...] in Zaba[n ...] (r 2) outside [...] (r 3) my daughter in [...] (r 4) I ga[ve ......] (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/P313893/