[Footnote 4: Again in this deed no statement is given in account of the measurings. The space is determined merely by the indication of the boundaries. This document is also the charter of a royal donation: it is not clear whether the below-mentioned objects are the price, or if, what is much more verisimilar, they are only the accessoria of the field.] [Footnote 5: Measurer is expressed by "masi-han."] [Footnote 6: Cf. I Kings x. 29: "A chariot ... of Egypt for 600 shekels of silver; and a horse for 150."] [Footnote 7: It is a question here of the utensils used for measuring, viz., thirty of one kind, and sixty of another.] [Footnote 8: The quality of the dogs is somewhat uncertain.] [Footnote 9: There is evidently a fault in the total number, 616 instead of 716. A weight of silver may be an obolus, the 360th part of a mina.] [Footnote 10: The "akli," who were at the royal court, may have been legists.] [Footnote 11: All these are formulæ solennes, as in the Roman law.] [Footnote 12: Obscure.] 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] [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.] GREAT INSCRIPTION IN THE PALACE OF KHORSABAD TRANSLATED BY DR. JULIUS OPPERT The document of which I publish a translation has been copied with admirable precision by M. Botta in his "_Monuments de Ninive_" There are four specimens of this same text in the Assyrian palace, which bear the title of Inscriptions of the Halls, Nos. iv, vii, viii, and x. There is another historical document in the palace of Khorsabad containing more minute particulars, and classed in a chronological order, which I translated in my "_Dur-Sar-kayan_," 1870, and in the "Records of the Past," Vol. VII. The several copies of this document have been united in one sole text in a work which I published in common with M. Ménant in the "_Journal Asiatique_," 1863.