[Footnote 1: See at the end.]
[Footnote 2: These 25 hins represent 75 litres, 16 gallons and a half, for seeding a surface of 207 acres.]
[Footnote 3: The great U, or arura.]
[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.