hands of
Marduk-nasir, Captain of the King, as equivalent of the price of a field
of 25 hins of (grain).

At any epoch whatever, in the days to come (or process of time) either an
_aklu,[10]_ or a no-servant, or a farmer, or a husbandman, or a workman,
or any other guardian who presents himself, and who settles in the house
of Hankas, and will endeavor to lay waste this field, will earn its
first-fruits, will turn it over, will plough it (mix up the earth), will
have it put under water, who will occupy this property by fraud or
violence and will settle in its territories, either in the name of the
god, or in the name of the King, or in the name of the representative of
the Lord of the country, or in the name of the representative of the
house, or in the name of any person whatever, whoever he may be, who will
give it, will earn the harvest of the land, will say,[11] "These fields
are not granted as gifts by the King"; whether he pronounce against them
the holy malediction or he swears by these words, "The head is not the
head"; and establish anyone therein, in saying, "There is no eye"; or who
will carry away this tablet, or will throw it into the river, or will
break it into pieces, or will bury it under a heap of stones, or will burn
it by fire, or will bury it in the earth, or will hide it in a dark place,
that man (shall be cursed):

May the god Anu, Bel, Hea, the great gods, afflict him and curse him with
maledictions which are not (retracted).

May the god Sin, the splendid in the high heaven, envelop all his members
with incurable leprosy until the day of his death; and expel him to the
farthest limits like a wild beast.

May Samas, the Judge of heaven and earth, fly before him; that he change
into darkness the light of the day.

May Istar, the Sovereign, the Queen of the gods, load him with infirmities
and anguish of illness like arrows, may she increase (day and night his
pains,) so that he runs about like a dog, in the ways of his town.

May Marduk, the King of heaven and earth, the Lord of the eternity without
end, entangle his weapons with bonds which cannot be broken.

May Ninip, the god of crops and boundaries, sweep away its limits and
tread upon his crops, and remove its limit.

May Gula, the mother (nurse), the great Lady, infect his bowels with a
poison, and that he void pus and blood like water.

May Bin, the supreme Guardian of heaven and earth, inundate his field like
a ...[12]

May Sera