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 Heabani promises (lines 10 and 11) that they will make Izdubar king when they have slain Humbaba and given his corpse to the vultures (lines 4, 8, and 9).

1. enter

2. he raised

3. the ornaments of her

4. the ornaments of her breast

5. and her crown I divided

6. of the earth he opened

7. he he ascended to the city

8. he went up to the presence of Shamas he made a sacrifice?

9. he built an altar. In the presence of Shamas he lifted his hands:

10. Why hast thou established Izdubar, in thy heart thou hast given him protection,

11. when the son and he goes

12. on the remote path to Humbaba,

13. A battle he knows not he will confront,

14. an expedition he knows not he will ride to,

15. for long he will go and will return,

16. to take the course to the forest of pine trees,

17. to Humbaba of [whom his city may] he destroy,

18. and every one who is evil whom thou hatest

19. In the day of the year he will

20. May she not return at all, may she not

21. him to fix