Neo-Assyrian

“(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) Nabu-bel-šumati, the legate of Birat entered the Inner City on the 7th. I asked him: "Why did you come now?" He said: (11) "I got a royal message: 'Why is it that all (other) city-rulers have come and stood in my presence, but you have not come? Also, why is it that the Arabs plundered Sippar, but you did not go out with your servants but kept [them] away?' (r 9) I was scared by this message and (that is why) I came."”

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/P334037/

“(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) Haldi-naṣir, the mercenary who took the letter to the Biratean, has come back carrying a letter; [I am sending him] right now [to] the king, my lord. (r 1) [I asked him]: "Why were you delayed?" He said: "He detained me for 12 days; Marduk-šumu-iddina will be coming right after me."”

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/P334271/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] servants (two broken and obscure lines) (4) [......] Marduk-šumu-iddina (5) [...... ha]s come (6) [......] right now (7) [he is on his way] to greet (8) [the king, my lord] (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/P313719/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭ]ab-ṣill-E[šarra. Good health] to the ki[ng, my lord!] May [Aššur] and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (6) Ṣululu, a [messenger] of Sulu[...] the commandant of Borsippa, came to Birat; from Birat, he [was] escorted to Hinzanu by the messenger of the Biratean, and from Hinzanu they came to the Inner City. (16) [......] with my m[esse]nger ...... (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/P334904/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. [Good health] to the king, my lord! May [Aššur and M]ullissu bless [the ki]ng, my lord! (6) Šarru-emuranni and [Ša]rru-nuri [came from] Babylon on the 10th [...... (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/P334045/

“(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 Bel-ha[...], the canal inspector of whom the king, my lord, wr[ote to me], (9) he arrived in the Inner City on the [eve] of the 4th, brought out his ... and left for 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/P334384/

“(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) what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[Let] this messenger of yours whom you sent to Birat together with his cavalry [...] the Hamranu tribe" — my messenger [...... (Break) (r 2) from [......] of the city of M[unu' ...] on the 21st of [......] at his behest. (r 6) The day they ente[red ..., my] messenger was taken captive. The chief ... o[f ...] who was there [...] with him; (r 10) Haqi[... rel]eased him in Munu' and wro[te]: "Send me silver!" He is in Munu'; I am now sending the silver.”

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/P334047/

“(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) The king, my lord, wrote to me: "Set out on the 22nd and be in the Inner City on the 29th!" — before I go to the Inner City, let me come and see the king, my lord! (13) And as to the reserves of the king's men of the Ruqahu and Hallatu tribes about which the king my lord wrote to me, I sent (orders about them) on the very day I saw the (king's) letter.”

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/P334043/