The Chief of the _rubar_ of the house of Ada has said it (named and pronounced) to Marduk-ilusu, son of the Scribe of Marduk-idin-akhe, King of Babylon, and Ina-e-saggatu-irbu, the Scribe, the field, this one has[19] ... owner of the house of Ada, has given it for the days to come, and has yielded it up.
(A great many short inscriptions are placed over the basso-relievos.
1. The smallest of them is placed over a kind of lyre. It reads:
2. Entangled between the branches of an object difficult to design and the horns of a goat, occurs a sentence which has not been translated.
3. The word "_nase_" is written between and the altar supporting a triangular object.
4. A legend of three lines is engraved between the mentioned altar, and a horned animal.)
So that he may not devastate the land of Zunire, nor the dwellings which are belonging to the Governor of Zunire.
5. Under an undetermined object, opposite to the nose of the above-mentioned fantastical animal is written a sentence composed of a perpendicular line and four lines parallel to the circumference.)
That he will not acknowledge either the _kisirtu_ or the tribute of this house, or the Prefect, or the _hazan_ of the house of Ada.
Either the author of the treaty, or the _hazan_ of the land of Zunire.
7. Included between the roost and the back of the dog occurs another sentence which has not been translated.
8. Across the symbolical figures [commencement obscure]:
That he might not watch upon the streets of Bit-Ada.
9. Between the scorpion and the back of the snake.
That in his abode, there may not be any power, any judge, any implorer.
[Footnote 1: Twenty hins are equal to 60 litres, 13-1/4 gallons.]
[Footnote 2: Great U, the standard agrarian measure.]
[Footnote 3: The country is unknown; the river Zirzirri is also mentioned elsewhere.]
[Footnote 4: This name signifies, "In the Pyramid he will increase."]
[Footnote 5: The valuations of the estates are made by the quantity of corn required to seed them, as it is the case in rabbinical literature, where the unity is a beth-sea, or the surface seeded by a sea. Therefore the epha of the king (royal epha) is quite in its place: the epha is varying from 32 to 36 pints.
The text itself states the royal endowment of a perhaps conquered land.]