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]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 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.]