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[Illustration: 260.jpg KUOTTRRU, OR "BOUNDARY-STONE."]
Inscribed with a text of Melishikhu, one of the kings of the
Third or Kassite Dynasty of Babylon, recording a grant of
certain property to Marduk-aplu-iddina, his son The
photograph is reproduced from M. de Morgan's Delegation en
Perse, Mem., t. ii, pi. 24.
"A cultivator of his lands, whether hired or belonging to the estate,
and the men who receive his instructions (i.e. his overseers) shall no
governor of Bit-Pir-Shadu-rabu cause to leave his lands, whether by the
order of the king, or by the order of the governor, or by the order of
whosoever may be at Bit-Pir-Shadu-rabu. On wood, grass, straw, corn,
and every other sort of crop, on his carts and yoke, on his ass and
man-servant, shall they make no levy. During the scarcity of water in
the canal running between the Bati-Anzanim canal and the canal of the
royal district, on the waters of his ditch for irrigation shall they
make no levy; from the ditch of his reservoir shall they not draw water,
neither shall they divert (his water for) irrigation, and other land
shall they not irrigate nor water therewith. The grass of his lands
shall they not mow; the beasts belonging to the king or to a governor,
which may be assigned to the district of Bit-Pir-Shadu-rabu, shall they
not drive within his boundary, nor shall they pasture them on his grass.
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