Neo-Assyrian

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-E[šarra]. Ešarra is well, the temples are well, the Inner City is well, Assyria is well, may the king, my lord, be well! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (9) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: 'Count the intact beams and write me!", (11) I have just written down the numbers of the beams and am sending them herewith to the king, my lord: 372 heavy beams, 808 second-size, 2,313 third-size, 11,807 fourth-size, in all 15,290 sound ones, plus 13,157 damaged or burnt. (Six illegible lines) (r 5) ...] I transferred the [beams…”

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/P334041/

“(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Ešarra is well, the temples are well, the Inner City is well, Assyria is well, may the king my lord be well! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (9) As to the logs which the king wr[ote me about ......] (Break) (r 1) [..... are] very [...], im[possible] to count. There are many logs! The king, my lord, can be glad.”

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/P334272/

“(1) [To] the king, m[y] lord: your [servant] Ṭab-ṣill-E[šarra]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, [my lord]! (5) As to the logs which the king, my lord, wrote me about: "Send (word) that they be towed here," (8) even before the king, my lord, wr[ote to me], I assigned [...... (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/P334273/

“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-E]šarra. [Good health to the king], my lord! May [Aššur and M[ullissu bless [the king, my lord]! (6) [As to the lo]custs [concerning which the king, my lord], wrote to me: "Write where the locusts have laid eggs! They shall fumigate (these areas) with juniper powder. They shall knock them out at the moment of their hatching." (14) Already before the letter of the Palace came to me, I had the following order issued in the [cities] and vi[llage]s: (r 4) "Fumigate with juniper powder where the [loc]usts have l[aid eggs]!" [Now], we shall knock them out at the moment of their hatching.”

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/P334676/

“(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! (5) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "In order to kill locusts go to the villages of Mê-ṭabute and Amante, as far as Kasappa," (10) the locusts here in the centre of the land between [...] on the great mountain [......] I have removed [...... (Break) (r 12) [......] the Inner City (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/P336167/

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) in the town [...] in the middle of [... ...] has taken 40 homers of b[arley] and 200 bales of straw, (as supplies) for two days, referring the matter to the king, (9) (while) in the village of Diqarate in the desert Aššur-belu-taqqin the prefect has taken 16 homers of barley and a pile of straw and seized farmers of the Palace. (r 8) They have borrowed [... and gi]ven [...... (Break) (e. 1) they open [......] without the go[vernor]'s permission; the king [my lord should know this].”

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/P334598/

“(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) There is an estate of 4,000 hectares of arable land in a village called Qurani in the Halahhu province which the king my lord took and [gave] to the Nabû temple of Dur-Šarruken, and (in doing this) the king my lord [gave] this order to [Kiṣir]-Aššur: "Give the Governor of the Land a village in return for the village [......]!" (15) [...... in] Halzi-atbar [......] there [......] an estate of 320 hectares [......] he has not given, and I have not…”

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/P334328/

“(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: "Suppose you are staying at home, how do you feed (your horses)?" (9) Half of my horses are fed in the Barhalza province, the other half eat at the [... of the ci]ty of Issete in the domestic quarters of [...]; my cavalry [and ... are sta]tioned in the tax-collection center of the province of [...]. Their [...... (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/P334046/