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 33. Ukni stones it carried as shoots?

34. the fruit it carried to the sight were large

Some of the words in this fragment are obscure, but the general meaning is clear. In the next column the wanderings of Izdubar are continued, and he comes to a country near the sea. Fragments of several lines of this column are preserved, but too mutilated to translate with certainty. The fragments are:—

1. the pine tree

2. its nest of stone ukni stone?

3. not striking the sea jet stones

4. like worms? and caterpillars gugmi

5. a bustard it caught? beautiful

6. jet stone, ka stone the goddess Ishtar

7. he carried

8. like asgege

9. which the sea

10. was may he raise

11. Izdubar [saw this] in his travelling

12. and he carried that

This tablet brings Izdubar to the region of the sea-coast, but his way is then barred by two women, one named Siduri, and the other Sabitu. His further adventures are given on the tenth tablet, which opens: