Neo-Assyrian

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [As to the ......] about which/whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, I am now sending to the king, my lord, the kallapu commanders, the engraver and the prefects who are transporting the stone thresholds.”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334739/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭ]ab-šar-Aššur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) As to the engravers [about whom the king my lord] wrote to me, [just as the kin]g my lord [commanded ...... (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P336596/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) As to [the ... of whom the ki]ng, my lord, wr[ote to me]: "Mobilize them! They should come and drag the bull colo[ssi]!" (5) [I spo]ke with them in the presence of [...] of the Palace [..... (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313897/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) On the 17th I and Kiṣir-Aššur went to the Zab river and inspected the timber; the logs were many, [as many] as we could possibly desire. (9) [...] towers [......]. The men [...] who w[ent] with us [...] the king's. (12) Kiṣir-Aššur [...] the timber, (whereas) I went to Dur-Šarruken [...... (Rest destroyed)”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313437/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) "We shall go [......]; I have [...] the river [......] heavy logs [......]." (4) I asked him: "Where [are they deposited? Those which] we cannot tow [to ......] not to [......] the Inner City [......]"? (8) His servants said: "From where the distant logs are being stored the river is navigable as far as the Inner City; from the Inner City to Nineveh it is difficult." (13) The Governor of the Land told me: "I'll first (stay) ten days here, [then ......] which during [......] Labdudu [.......]." (17) On the 1st of Tishri (VII), [when] the earlier [...] arrived in the…”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P313571/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the work assignment of the governor of Calah about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why has the governor of Arrapha left half of the gate to him?" (9) On the 3rd, when they started on the city wall, they came to me, saying: "Come and settle our work allocation between us!" I went and settled it between them. Perhaps the king, my lord, now says: "Why [......" (Break) (r 1) [Out of the ...] work assignment (units) of the governor of Calah, that of the wall reached as far as the edge of the…”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334333/

“(1) [To] the king, my lord: [your servant Ṭab]-šar-Aššur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) Paqaha, the master-builder in charge of the ditch came and had an audience with me, saying: "The king has added to the men working on the ditch but there are no (work) leaders. The governor of Talmusa is not able to direct the men, he said to me as follows: (14) '1,000 men [...... (Break) (r 2) ...... we [can]not do the work.'" (r 3) Paqaha told me: "I (must) personally take the lead of 100 men and spend a full month on the work. Let the king my lord call the leaders to account for the fact that I (must) spend a full month on the work employing (only) 100 men."”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334051/

“(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health to [the king], my lord! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "When are they going to cast the gate column-bases for the portico of the hilānu palaces?" (9) I asked Aššur-šumi-ke'in and the artists, who told me this: "We are going to cast four column-bases of bronze for two hilānu palaces in the month of Marchesvan (VIII); the small lions of the hilānu(s) will be cast together with the big lions in the spring." (18) I asked the son of B[el-...] about the work on the temple doors: "When are you going to finish your…”

Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334314/