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9. The freshet, god Gu-silimf with the tearful eye.* 



10. The freshet, thou who art my prince of heaven.* 



11. The freshet, Ama-usumgal-ana.* 



12. The freshet, brother, mother, wine of heaven.* 



(Add. and Corn, p. 6.) 



13. Shepherd, lord Tammuz, husband of Istar. 



14. Lord of the Underworld, lord of the shepherd's seat.* 



15. Germ which in the furrow has not absorbed water, 



1 6. Whose bud has not made a blossom in the meadow. 



17. Sapling which has not been planted by its watercourse, 



18. Sapling whose root has been removed. 



19. Plant which in the furrow has not absorbed water. 



(Plate 27, No. i). 



4. The ewe and her lamb he nourisheth,J 



5. The goat and her kid he nourisheth ; 



6. The ewe and her lamb he causeth to be slain, 



7. The goat and her kid he causeth to be slain.* 



8. Stop (?) the path (?), thou§ hero, to the road of no-return. 



9. The freshet, warrior, lord physician,* etc., etc. (as in lines 



4 — 12 above). 



18. Go, go, to the bosom of the earth — 



19. He will make plenty to overflow for the land of the dead,|| 



20. Filled with lamentation on the day that he fell, and (was) 



in distress, 



21. In an unpropitious month of his year.H 



22. To the road of man's last end.** 



23. At the call of the lord,tt 



* The lines marked thus have no Semitic translation. 



t Gu-silim means (if rightly transcribed) " word of peace." It may, 

 Tiowever, be connected with the characters translated "lost one," etc., in 

 lines 12 and 13 of col. II., 17-20, 22, 23 of col. III., and in that case Kasa 

 or Gusa would be more probable. 



X The meaning of this word is slightly doubtful on account of the 

 mutilation of the last character in the Semitic rendering. 



§ " Thou " is wanting in the Semitic rendering. 



II Variant rendering : " Samas (the sun god) will make him grow for the 

 land of the dead." 



H Better, according to the Sumerian, " For the unpropitious month of 

 ■thy year." 



** Variant : " To the road of the people's rest." 



tt Sumerian version, "his lord." 



