225. If he has treated an ox or an ass for a severe wound and has caused its death, he shall pay one-fourth of its price to the owner of the ox or the ass.
Illegal Branding of Slaves
226. If a barber-surgeon, without consent of the owner of a slave, has branded the slave with an indelible mark, one shall cut off the hands of that barber.
227. If anyone deceives the barber-surgeon and makes him brand a slave with an indelible mark, one shall kill that man and bury him in his house. The barber shall swear, “I did not mark him wittingly,” and he shall be guiltless.
Regulations concerning Builders
228. If a builder has built a house for some one and has finished it, for every SAR of house he shall give him two shekels of silver as his fee.
229. If a builder has built a house for some one and has not made his work firm, and if the house he built has fallen and has killed the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.
230. If it has killed the son of the house-owner, one shall kill the son of that builder.
231. If it has killed the slave of the house-owner, he (the builder) shall give to the owner of the house slave for slave.
232. If it has destroyed property, he shall restore everything he destroyed; and because the house he built was not firm and fell in, out of his own funds he shall rebuild the house that fell.
233. If a builder has built a house for some one and has not made its foundations solid, and a wall falls, that builder out of his own money shall make firm that wall.
Regulations concerning Shipping
234. If a boatman has caulked (?) a boat of 60 GUR for a man, he shall give him two shekels of silver as his fee.
235. If a boatman has caulked a boat for a man, and has not made firm his work; if in that year that ship is put into use and it suffers an injury, the boatman shall alter that boat and shall make it firm out of his own funds; and he shall give the strengthened boat to the owner of the boat.
236. If a man has given his boat to a boatman on hire, if the boatman has been careless, has grounded the boat or destroyed it, the boatman shall give a boat to the owner of the boat in compensation.
237. If a man has hired a boatman and a boat, and has loaded it with grain, wool, oil, dates, or whatever the cargo was; if that boatman has been careless, has grounded the ship and destroyed all that was in it, the boatman shall make good the ship which he grounded and whatever he destroyed of what was in it.
238. If a man has grounded a boat and has refloated it, he shall pay the half of its price in silver.
239. If a man has hired a boatman, he shall give 6 GUR of grain a year.
240. If a freight boat has struck a ferry-boat, and grounded it, the owner of the grounded boat shall make a statement before God of everything that was destroyed in the boat and (the owner of) the freight boat which grounded the ferry-boat shall make good the boat and whatever was destroyed.
Regulations concerning the Hiring of Animals, Farming, Wages, etc.
241. If a man has forced an ox to too hard labour, he shall pay one-third a mina of silver.
242. If a man hires (the ox) for one year, he shall pay 4 GUR of grain as the hire of a working ox.
243. For the hire of an ox to carry burdens (?) he shall give 3 GUR of grain to its owner.
244. If anyone has hired an ox or an ass, and if in the field a lion has killed it, the loss is its master’s.
245. If anyone has hired an ox and has caused it to die through ill-treatment or blows, he shall return ox for ox to the owner of the ox.
246. If a man has hired an ox and has broken his leg or has cut its nape, he shall return ox for ox to the owner of the ox.
247. If a man has hired an ox and has knocked out its eye, he shall give one-half its value in silver to the owner of the ox.
248. If anyone has hired an ox and has broken its horn, cut off its tail, or has injured its nostrils, he shall pay one-fourth of its price in silver.
249. If anyone has hired an ox and God (an accident) has struck him and he has died, he who hired the ox shall swear by the name of God and be guiltless.
250. If a furious ox in his charge gores a man and kills him, that case cannot be brought to judgment.
251. If an ox has pushed a man (with his horns) and in pushing showed him his vice, and if he has not blunted his horns, has not shut up his ox: if that ox gores a free-born man and kills him, he shall pay one-half a mina of silver.
252. If it is the slave of a man he shall give one-third of a mina of silver.
253. If a man has hired a man to live in his field and has furnished him seed grain (?) and oxen, and has bound him to cultivate the field; if that man has stolen grain or plants and they are seized in his possession, one shall cut off his hands.
254. If he has taken the seed grain (?), for himself exhausted the oxen; he shall make restitution according to the amount of the grain which he took.
255. If he has given out the man’s oxen on hire or has stolen the grain, has not caused it to grow in the field; one shall bring that man to judgment, for 100 GAN of land he shall measure out 60 GUR of grain.
256. If his community (clan) will not take up his cause, one shall leave him in the field among the oxen. (?)
257. If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him 8 GUR of grain for one year.
258. If a man has hired an ox driver (?), he shall give him 6 GUR of grain for one year.
259. If a man has stolen a watering wheel (Gis-Apin) from the field, he shall pay 5 shekels of silver to the owner of the wheel.
260. If he has stolen a watering bucket[32] or a plough, he shall pay three shekels of silver.
261. If a man has hired a herdsman to pasture cattle and sheep, he shall pay him 8 GUR of grain a year.
262. If a man, oxen or sheep … [the stone is here defaced.]
263. If he has destroyed the oxen or sheep which were given him, ox for ox and sheep for sheep he shall restore to their owner.
264. If a herdsman, to whom oxen and sheep have been given for pasturing, has received his wages, whatever was agreed upon, and his heart is contented; if he has diminished the oxen or the sheep, has lessened the offspring, he shall give offspring and produce according to the words of his agreement.
265. If a herdsman, to whom oxen and sheep have been given for pasturing, has deceived, has changed the price, or has given them for money; he shall be brought to judgment and he shall return to their owner oxen and sheep ten times that which he stole.
266. If in the fold a disaster is brought about from God, or if a lion has killed, the herdsman shall purge himself before God, and the owner of the fold shall bear the disaster to the fold.
267. If the herdsman has been careless and in the fold has caused loss, the shepherd shall make good in oxen and sheep the loss he caused in the fold, and shall give them to their owner in good condition.
268. If a man has hired an ox for threshing, 20 KA of grain is its hire.
269. If he has hired an ass for threshing, 10 KA of grain is its hire.
270. If he has hired a young animal for threshing, 1 KA of grain is its hire.
271. If anyone has hired oxen, a cart, and driver, he shall pay 180 KA of grain for one day.
272. If anyone has hired a cart alone, he shall give 40 KA of grain for one day.
273. If anyone has hired a day labourer, from the first of the year to the fifth month, he shall give him 6 SHE of silver a day; from the sixth month to the end of the year he shall give him 5 SHE of silver a day.
274. If anyone hires an artisan,—The wages of a … are 5 SHE of silver; the wages of a brick maker (?), 5 SHE of silver; the wages of a tailor, 5 SHE of silver; the wages of a stone cutter (?) … SHE of silver; the wages of a … SHE of silver; the wages of a … SHE of silver; the wages of a carpenter, 4 SHE of silver; the wages of a … 4 SHE of silver; the wages of … SHE of silver; the wages of a mason … SHE of silver,—a day he shall give.