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4 i-ḫa-an-ni-ib [pi-ir-ta-šu?]	4 his hair growing thickly like the corn.
5 it-bi-ma .......	5 He came forth ...
6 a-na pa-ni- šu	6 into his presence.
7 it-tam-ḫa-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti	7 They met in the wide park of the land.
8 iluEn-ki-dû ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik	8 Enkidu held fast the door
9 i-na ši-pi-šu	9 with his foot,
10 iluGilgamiš e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in	10 and permitted not Gilgamish to enter.
11 iṣ-ṣa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im	11 They grappled with each other
12 i- lu- du[1]	12 goring like an ox.
13 zi-ip-pa-am ’i-bu- tu	13 The threshold they destroyed.
14 i-ga-rum ir-tu-tū[2]	14 The wall they demolished.
15 iluGilgamiš ù iluEn-ki- dû	15 Gilgamish and Enkidu
16 iṣ-ṣa-ab-tu-ù- ma	16 grappled with each other,
17 ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du	17 goring like an ox.
18 zi-ip-pa-am ’i-bu- tu	18 The threshold they destroyed.
19 i-ga-rum ir-tu-tū	19 The wall they demolished.
20 ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamiš	20 Gilgamish bowed
21 i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri ši-ip-šu	21 to the ground at his feet
22 ip-ši-iḫ[3] uṣ-ṣa-šu- ma	22 and his javelin reposed.
23 i-ni-’i i-ra-az-zu	23 He turned back his breast.
24 iš-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-ḫu[4]	24 After he had turned back his breast,
25 iluEn-ki-dû a-na ša-ši-im	25 Enkidu unto that one
26 iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamiš	26 spoke, even unto Gilgamish.
27 ki-ma iš-te-en-ma um-ma-ka	27 “Even as one[5] did thy mother
28 ú-li- id- ka	28 bear thee,
29 ri-im-tum ša zu- pu-ri	29 she the wild cow of the cattle stalls,
30 ilatNin- sun- na	30 Ninsunna,
31 ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-eš-su	31 whose head she exalted more than a husband.

1. The verb la’āṭu, to pierce, devour, forms its preterite iluṭ; see VAB. IV 216, 1. The present tense which occurs here as iluṭ also.
2. Note BUL(tu-ku) = ratātu (falsely entered in Meissner, SAI. 7993), and irattutu in Zimmern, Shurpu, Index.
3. “For ipšaḫ.”
4. Sic! ḫu reduced to the breathing ’u; read i-ni-’u.
5. I.e., an ordinary man.