REFERRING TO BABYLONIA AND ELAM, ETC. 65 



13. Storm aucl evil wind went round in the heavens — 



14. Ami, their creator, had displeasure. 



IT). He made pale their face, he made desolatejiis place, 



10. He destroyed the barrier in the s lupine of E-auna, 



17. [He ovei'threw ?] the temple, (and) the platform shook. 



18 he decreed destruction, 



19 he had^disfavonr. 



20. The people (?) of Bel, of E-zida(?) barred (?) the road to 



Snmer. 



21. Who is Chedor-lao[mer], the doer of the evils? 



22. He has gathered also the Umman-Man[da ag-ainst (?)] the 



people (?) of Bel — 



23. He has laid in i-iiin by their side. 



24. When the [enclosure?] of E-zida (was) [broken down?]. 



25. And Nebo was ruler of the host, tliere came [down] his [winged 



bulls]. 

 2<j. Down to Tiamtu he sc[t his face]. 



27. Ine-Tutu, whom the Sungod (?) hastened within Tiamtu, 



28. Entered Tiamtu, (and) founded a pseudocapital. 



29. The enclosure of E-zida, the everlasting temple, was caused to 



broken through. 



30. [The enemy], the Elamite, caused hi.s yok(^ of horses to be 



directed, (and) 



31. Set his face (to go) down to Borsippa. 



32. He traver[sed] also the road of darkness, the road to Mesecli. 



33. The tyrant (?) Elamite destroyed its palace (?). 



34. He subdued the princes of with the sword, 



35. He [car]ried off the spoil of all the temples, 



3G. [He] took their goods, and carried them away (to) Elam. 



37 ruler, he destroyed its ruler (?), 



38 filled also tlie land. 



39 



Mutilated as it is, this text is nevertheless more satis- 

 factory as to its condition than the other two published in 

 this paper, and its nature is, therefore, not so difficult to 

 determine. The obverse tells us what "the Elamite," "the 

 evil man" (lines o2, oo), "'the enemy" (lines 21, 24) did in 

 Du-mah ("the supreme seat''), where, like Ura (= Nergal, 

 god of war and pestilence), he spoiled the temple of Istar and 

 destroyed that of Du-mah, turiiing his attention especially 

 to the deity Ennun-dagalla. If tliere be anything of truth 

 in the narrative, (and in all probability it indicates what 



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