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This tablet is in a somewhat better state than the others, and all the narrative is clearer from this point, not a single column of the inscription being entirely lost. The ninth tablet commences with the sorrow of Izdubar at the death of Heabani.

1. Izdubar over Heabani his seer

2. bitterly lamented, and lay down on the ground.

3. I had no judgment like Heabani;

4. Weakness entered into my soul;

5. death I feared, and lay down on the ground.

6. For the advice of Hasisadra, son of Ubaratutu

7. The road I was taking, and joyfully I went,

8. to the neighbourhood of the mountains I took at night.

9. a dream I saw, and I feared.

10. I bowed on my face, and to Sin (the moon god) I prayed;

11. and into the presence of the gods came my supplication;

12. and they sent peace unto me.

13. dream.

14. Sin, erred in life.

15. precious stones to his hand.

16. were bound to his girdle

17. like the time their  he struck

18. he struck fruit? he broke