Neo-Assyrian

“(1) [To the king, my] lord: [your servant] Ṭab-šar-[Aššur]. [Good health] to the king, [my lord]! (4) [As to the g]ate of the bathroom [of] the big hilānu palace of which the king, [my lord], wrote to me, I have just got hold of the [... and am herewith sending them] to the king, my lord. (8) The old-fashioned razor which stood [...], even if [......], will be removed [from] the gate. (10) As to [the ... of] the tower, with reed [...... (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/P334334/

“(Beginning destroyed) (r 2) they carry [......] (r 3) here [......] (r 4) of the doors [......] (r 5) we are [doing] our work. (SPACER)”

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/P313947/

“(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: "Why are the names of the city lords of the cities not built high?" (6) The king, my lord, knows that our previous campaign which we directed to Mannea (and) Media [... is depicted] o[n the walls of] the Ol[d] Palace. We have in[spected ......] (Break) (r 2) [the na]mes of the kings and [...] officials (r 3) [di]adems in fr[ont of ...] (r 4) their [na]mes [are compl]eted (r 5) we [......] from [...]huha to Dur-Šarruken. This [...] has been made ...... (Rest too broken for translation)”

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/P334056/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) [As to] the work on the ziggurat of Anu concerning which the king, my lord, gave me the following [order]: "Ask the Chief Scribe about it!" — (8) They have [now] asked him, and [he spoke] as follows: "Why should we do [......] the work [......" (Break) (r 4) ......] will go straight away and inspect the work in the Inner City; returning from the Inner City to Calah, he will go to the Chief Scribe, who will send a detailed report to the Palace.”

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/P334055/

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] the new [...]s of the ci[ty ...] (3) [......] the names of the cities (4) [......] of the city-rulers on [...] (5) [......] When the designers [...] my names (6) and removed the bricks, these (7) [.....]...; I did not know. And now (8) [...] houses have been designed for Calah. The palace (9) [...]...: "The pleasure palace (10) [...]... Servants have been ascribed to it twice. (11) I [do not] know where it is; without [...]. (12) [As to what] the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[...] (13) [... in the mon]th Adar (XII)", just as [...... (Rest too broken for translation)”

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/P313648/

“(1) [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servan]t Ṭab-šar-Aššur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) [As to Ašš]ur-bessunu [the ... of whom] the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "I have given him [...] oxen [...... (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/P336597/

“(1) [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servan]t Ṭab-šar-Aššur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) [As to this man ... of whom] the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "[......] as follows: '[......" (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/P314032/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and] Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (6) As to the deceased household manager of the Aššur temple of whom I said in the presence of the king my lord: "He has a son and a nephew," (12) at this very moment his son, his nephew, and Simanai son of Nabû-balliṭ, cousin of Aššur-na'id the second priest, are on their way to the king, my lord. (r 6) Let the king, my lord, appoint the one who is acceptable to the king, my lord.”

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/P334396/