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1. seat her

2. all the lords

3. his might

4. the gods, lord lofty?

5. kingdom exalted

6. in multitudes increase

1. Hea called to his man

2. height of his greatness

3. the rule of any god

4. Sartulku knew it

5. his noble

6. his fear? Sartulku

7. his might

8. to them, the dragon of the sea

9. against thy father fight

Connected with this fragment is the account of the curse after the Fall, on the remarkable fragment which I brought over from my first expedition to Assyria.

This forms about half a tablet, being part of the obverse and reverse, both in fair preservation; and so far as they go, fairly perfect, but containing at present many obscurities in the speeches of the gods. Before the commencement of lines 1, 5, 11, 19, 27, and 29 on the obverse, there are glosses stating that the divine titles commencing these lines all apply to the same deity. These explanatory glosses show