Adad-nerari III 09

(1) [Adad-nārārī (III), great king], strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [son of Šamš]ī-Adad (V), strong king, king [of the world], king of Assyria, [son of Shal]maneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world):

(4) Decree: he entrusted the land Ḫindānu to Pālil-[ēreš], the governor of the land Raṣappa. The state service is under his authority.

(6) Whoever lays claim against the provisions of the decree, which is (in favor) of Pālil-ēreš, the governor of the land Raṣappa (and) governor [of the land Ḫindānu], ... [...] his agent. Whoever [... files a] suit before the king against Pālil-ēreš [...]:

(11) Now he must not speak calumnies, [for the king] has wholeheartedly entrusted [the land Ḫindānu] to [Pālil-ēreš], the governor of the land Raṣappa. The gods Adad and Ber [...].

(15) (As for) a future ruler whom [(the god) Aššur] will name [for] the kingship of Assyria, he must not cancel (lit. “remove”) the provisions of this document, he must not remove the people of the land Ḫindānu from the authority of Pālil-ēreš, the governor of the land Raṣappa, to add them to another province and (20) entrust them to someone else. For future days, for eternity, they are included with the province of the land Raṣappa [and] the governor of the land Raṣappa [...] ... [...]

(r 1) Whoever, either ruler, [or ...], or brother of the king, [or ...], or vizier, or [...], or master, or commoner, or [...], (5) stands (to testify), the testimony [that he declares] must be good. Whoever (he be), he must not speak bad [testimony] concerning the people of the land Ḫindānu before [the king, his lord]. In the presence of the king, his lord, he must not [say] “Remove the people of the land Ḫindānu from the authority of Pālil-[ēreš], (10) the governor of the land Raṣappa. Put them under the authority of someone else.” (If he does), may the king, his lord, banish him from his palace with curses (lit. “bad words”) and maledictions (lit. “not-good oaths”). As long as he lives, may he not be allowed to re-enter the palace. May he (the king) remove his province (from his authority) and hand it over to his enemy.

(r 15) Whoever says concerning the land Ḫindānu “Remove the land Ḫindānu from the authority of the governor of [Raṣappa],” may the god Marduk, the great lord, glare at him angrily (and) [ordain for him] an evil fate forever.

(r 19) The king swears by god that he has entrusted the land Ḫin[dānu ...] to Pālil-ēreš. [No one] may take (it from him).

(r 21b) Whoever [removes this] document from the presence of the Lady of Nineveh [and] throws it in water, burns it with fire, buries it in the earth, (25) puts it in another place, or throws it into a Taboo House, where it is inaccessible, may the deities Aššur, Šamaš, Nabû, Marduk, Enlil, father of the gods, Ninurta, the warrior, Nergal, the lord of judgment, (and) the Assyrian Ištar, (all) these great gods, (30) glare angrily at him and make [his name, his seed], and his offspring disappear from the land. May they clothe his body with leprosy like a garment.

(r 34) Simānu (III), twenty-fourth day, [eponymy of] Bēl-tarṣi-ilumma, governor [of the city Kalḫu].

(r 36) Whoever says in the presence of the king “Remove the land [Ḫindānu from the authority of Pālil-ēreš], governor of the land Raṣappa,” according to this document [...] ... [...]