Neo-Assyrian

“(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Issar-du[ri]. Good health to the king, [my l]ord! (4) Nabû-zeru-ibni, the Ru'[uean] eunuch whom the king, my lord, retur[ned] from Damascus from the servi[ce] of Bel-duri and sent to Abdudu to Be[l-...] in the hope that the Ru'u[ean] and his people would co[me] to him — (11) (when) Merodach-Bal[adan] heard of his having come, he had all his brothers brought (before him), and spoke with them as follows: "Now that his brother has come, you will run aw[ay] to him!" They said to him, "Why should we run away? (This) brother of ours who has come is on the…”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334104/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Iss]ar-du[ri. Good health t]o the king, [my] l[ord]! (4) [Concerning the g]uard about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e, whom the servants [of the kin]g my lord have hired, he will depart [tom]orrow. (8) [The boa]tmen [sa]id to me as follows: "Are we to go as he says? The [te]rritory is not safe, there are bandits w[ho ...] there. Surely [... will] hear [about it and] send [...]s [who will t]ake the boats away from us. [...] in the ri[ve]r [...]. Let m]e go [...] and give [......], (and) let us wait [fo]r the king, my lord. As soon as the king is…”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334703/

“(1) [T]o the king, my lord: your [servant] Issar-duri. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Concerning the cavalrymen of Nibê about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, we were already in Media (when) the le[tte]r of the king, my lord, came t[o m]e. (10) [...] I se[nt (word) ...] (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334105/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-duri. [Good] health to the king, my lord! (4) [Concerni]ng Nabû-šumu-iddina and Nabû-eriba, the physicians [about whom I sp]oke to the king, my lord, now then I am sending them [care of] my messenger to the [kin]g my lord's presence. Let them enter the king my lord's [pres]ence, and let the king my lord speak with them. Truly, I have not disclosed nor told them where the king, my lord, is sending them. (17) Šamaš-belu-uṣur wrote to me from Der: "Should we really not put any inscriptions in the walls of the temple?" I am now writing to the king, my…”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334103/

“(1) [To] the king, my lord: yo[ur servant] Issar-dur[i. Good he]alth to the king, [my lo]rd! (4) We [watc]hed for the gods on the [2]9th [day]. There were clouds in [the sk]y, and therefore [w]e did [not] see (anything). How[ever], my messenger who has been staying [in the presence] of Marduk-šarru-[uṣur has] now [...] (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334108/

“(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Issar-duri. Good health to the king, [my] lord! (4) In the night of the 5th day it started to rain hail. The ra[in poured dow]n through the night, the whole early morning and the next day. [... Aš]šur (Break) (r 1) I appealed for [...]. (r 2) Now I have announced to the king, [my] lord, the good news of the rain. For my good news let them (now) give me what I appealed for. (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334500/

“(1) [To the king], my [lo]rd: [your servant] Issar-duri. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) [The servants o]f Bel-ahhe-riba [who ca]me and appealed to the king, [my lord, saying: "There a]re [brothe]rs of ours in Na[...]" — Inurta-šakin-[..., the bodyg]uard (whom) the king, [my l]ord, sent [with the]m, [has ...ed t]hese [...] of [...] (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334501/

“(1) [To] the king, [my] lord: your servant Issar-duri. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Concerning the people and the goods of Nabû-ahhe-iddina about which the king, my lord, gave me orders, [...] in a[ccordan]ce with the writing-board (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334109/