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Babylonian and Assyrian Literature

by Epiphanius Wilson

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Translation of an Unedited Fragment

Five-sixths of an artaba[1] of corn sows an arura, a field situated on the Euphrates.

….adjoining … wide … adjoining … a field in great measure … Zirbet-u-Alzu … and for the days to come he has given … this table … sin-idin … son of Tuklat-habal-Marduk, Governor of the town of Nisin. Bani-Marduk, son of Tuklat … Malik-kilim, son of Tuklat … Chief of … An-sali … son of Zab-zib-malik … Malik-habal-idin, of the town of Balaki … Chief of Sin-idin-habal … May he cause him to perish … and his offering.2

Notes

1 The artaba was 3 epha, 18 hins; the mentioned quantity of 15 hins necessary to seed this very fertile field is only 79 pints.

2 Dr. Oppert copied this text twenty years ago; he does not know whether since that time any other piece of the stone has been discovered.

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