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| 17 mi-in-di iluGilgamish ša ki-ma ka-ti |
17 “Truly oh Gilgamish he is
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| 18 i-na ṣi-ri i-wa-li-id-ma |
18 born[1] in the fields like thee.
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| 19 ú-ra-ab-bi-šu ša-du-ú |
19 The mountains have reared him.
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| 20 ta-mar-šu-ma [sa(?)]-ap-ḫa-ta at-ta |
20 Thou beholdest him and art distracted(?)
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| 21 id-lu-tum ú-na-ša-ku ši-pi-šu[2] |
21 Heroes kiss his feet.
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| 22 te-iṭ-ṭi-ra-šu(?) … šu-ú-zu |
22 Thou shalt spare him….
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| 23 ta-tar-ra-[’a]-šu a-na ṣi-[ri-i̭]a |
23 Thou shalt lead him to me.”
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| 24 [iš-(?)] ti-lam-ma[3] i-ta-mar ša-ni-tam |
24 Again he dreamed and saw another dream
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| 25 [šu-na-]ta i-ta-wa-a-am a-na um-mi-šu |
25 and reported it unto his mother.
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| 26 [um-m]i a-ta-mar ša-ni-tam |
26 “My mother, I have seen another
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| 27 [šu-na-ta a-ta]mar e-mi-a i-na zu-ki-im |
27 [dream. I beheld] my likeness in the street.
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| 28 [i-na?] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim[4] |
28 In Erech of the wide spaces[5]
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| 29 ḫa-aṣ-ṣi-nu na-di-i-ma |
29 he hurled the axe,
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| 30 e-li-šu pa-aḫ- ru |
30 and they assembled about him.
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| 31 ḫa-aṣ-ṣi-nu-um-ma ša-ni bu-nu-šu |
31 Another axe seemed his visage.
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| 32 a-mur-šu-ma aḫ-ta-ta a-na-ku |
32 I saw him and was astounded.
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| 33 a-ra-am-šu-ma ki-ma áš-ša-tim |
33 I loved him as a woman,
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| 34 a-ḫa-ap-pu-up el-šu |
34 falling upon him in embrace.
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| 35 el-ki-šu-ma áš-ta-ka-an-šu |
35 I took him and made him
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| 36 a-na a-ḫi-i̭a |
36 my brother.”
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| 37 um-mi iluGilgamish mu-da-at ka-la-ma |
37 The mother of Gilgamish she that knows all things
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| 38 [iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish] |
38 [said unto Gilgamish:—]
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