will destroy this field, who will venture to take away
the boundary-stone, or will vindicate it: whether he consecrate this field
to a god, or earn it for his superior, or claim it for himself, or change
the extent, the surface, or the limits, that he reaps new harvests (crops);
or who will say of the field with its measures, "There is no granter;"
whether he call forth malediction and hostility on the tablets; or
establish on it anyone other who change these curses, in swearing: "The
head is not the head;" and in asserting: There is no evil eye;[1]
whosoever will carry elsewhere those tablets; or will throw them into the
water; will bury them in the earth; will hide them under stones; will burn
them with fire, will alter what is written on them, will confine them into
a place where they might not be seen; that man shall be cursed:

May the gods Anu, El, Hea, the Great Goddess, the great gods, inflict upon
him the utmost contumely, extirpate his name, annihilate his family.

May Marduk, the great Lord of eternity without end, bind him in fetters
which cannot be broken.

May Samas, the great Judge of heaven and earth, judge his unpunished
misdeeds, and surprise him in flagrant deeds.

May Sin, the brilliant (_Nannar_), who dwells in the sacred heavens,
clothe him in leprosy as in a garment, and give him up to the wild beasts
that wander in the outsides of the town.

May Istar, the Queen of heaven and earth, carry him off, and deliver him
for avenge to the god and the king.

May Ninip, son of the zenith, son of El the sublime, take away his lands,
funds, and limits.

May Gula, the great Queen, the wife of Ninip, infilter into his bowels a
poison which cannot be pushed out, and may he void blood and pus like
water.

May Bin, the great Guardian of heaven and earth, the son of the warrior
Anu, inundate his field.

May Serah destroy his firstborn; may he torture his flesh, and load his
feet with chains.

May Nabu, the supreme Watcher, strike him with misfortune and ruin, and
blast his happiness that he not obtain it, in the wrath of his face.

May all the great gods whose names are recorded on this tablet, curse him
with irrevocable malediction, and scatter his race even to the last days.

[Footnote 1: This seems to be a usual formula.]

(This monument is equally engraved on a black basalt stone; it offers the
same arrangement as the stone of Michaux. The analogous documents show
that numerous inaccuracies ha