276 BARTON— NEW BABYLONIAN ACCOUNT 



4. The land Tikku' had not created ; 



5. For Tikku a temple platform had not been filled in; 



6. A lofty dwelling had not been built. 



7. The arable land was without any seed ; 



8. A well or a canal (?) had not been dug; 



9. Horses and cattle had not been brought forth, 

 ID. So that Ashnan could shepherd a corral; 



11. The Anunua, the great gods, had made no plan; 



12. There was no i^'j-grain of thirty fold; 



13. There was no i^.y-grain of fifty fold; 



14. Small grain, mountain grain, and great a.ya/-grain there was not; 



15. A possession and house there was not; 



16. Tikku had neither entered a gate nor gone out ; 



17. Together with Nintu, — the lord had not brought forth men. 



18. The god Ug as leader came ; as leader he came forth to plan ; 



19. Mankind he planned ; many men were brought forth. 



20. Food and sleep he planned for them ; 



21. Clothing and dwellings he did not plan for them. 



22. The people with rushes and rope came, 



23. By making a dwelling a kindred was formed. 



24. To the gardens . . . they brought irrigation ; 



25. On that day their [gardens sprouted ( ?)]. 



26. Trees . . . mountain and country. . . . 



1. gar-sag-an-ki-bi-da-ge 



2. erim-an-ni dingir-dingir a-nun-na im-Hir-ne-es a-ba 



3. mu ^esinu nu-iu-da-via-da ub-se-da-an-dug-ga 



4. kalani-mu ^tik-ku nu-in-da-an-dim-ma-as 



5. ^tik-ku-ra temcn nn-mn-na-sig-ga-as 



6. tus-up-pi-a ra^-ub-sar-ra 



7. ar-nu-me-a-ani numun sar-ra 



8. pn-e-x'' -a-bi nu-i)i-tu-ud 



9. anse-ra^ bir-es-bi nu-in-tu-ud 

 ID. mu '^c::iini utul-timiina-bi apin 



11. ^a-nun-na dingir gal-gal c-iic nu-mii-nn-.zu-ia-am 



12. se-ses erim-usu-am nu-gdl-la-am 



13. se-ses erim-eninnu-am nu-gdl-la-am 



14. se-ttir-tur sc-kur-ra sc-a-sal-gal-la uu-gdl-la-am 



15. su-gar tus-tus-bi nu-gdl-la-am 



16. ^tik-ku nu-se-tur ka nu-il 



* A god of vegetation ; Brunnow's " List," 7484. 



5 Tikku is a river-bank personified. 



<^ra^=la, "not"; cf. "Origin of Babylonian Writing," 287. It is often 

 employed in the Stele of Vultures in this sense; see, e. g., Col. XXL, 2, 3, 

 na-ru-a-bi ba-ra-ad-du, " this stele one shall not break." 



' The sign x is 606 in the " Origin of Babylonian Writing." Its values 

 are undetermined. 



** anse-ra, for anse-kur-ra. kur was omitted by the scribe. 



