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 considerable difficulty in attempting an explanation. One of the actors in the story is an ancient monarch named Etana who is mentioned as already dead, and as being an inhabitant of the infernal regions in the time of Izdubar.

I am unable to ascertain the order of the fragments of these legends and must translate them as they come.

Many lines lost at commencement.

1. The serpent in

2. I give command?

3. to the eagle

4. Again the nest

5. my nest I leave

6. the assembly? of my people

7. I go down and enter?

8. the sentence which Shamas has pronounced on me

9. I feel? Shamas thy sight? in the earth

10. thy stroke? this

11. in thy sight? let me not

12. doing evil the goddess Bau (Gula) was

13. The sorrow of the serpent [shamas saw and]

14. Shamas opened his mouth and word he spoke to

15. Go the way pass

16. I cut thee off?

17. open also his heart

18. he placed

19. birds of heaven