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OF IZDUBAR.
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Column III.

1. the friend whom I loved . . . .

2. I am not like him . . . .


3. Izdubar to him also said to Ur-hamsi

4. Again Ur-hamsi why . . . .

5. what brings (matters) to me if it . . . .

6. if carried to cross the sea, if not carried [to cross the sea]


7. Ur-hamsi to him also said to Izdubar

8. Thy hand Izdubar ceases . . . .

9. thou hidest in the place of the stones thou . . .

10. in the place of the stones hidden and they . . .

11. Take Izdubar the axe in thy hand . . . .

12. go down to the forest and a spear of five gar . . .

13. capture and make a burden of it, and carry it . . .

14. Izdubar on his hearing this,

15. took the axe in his hand . . . .

16. he went down to the forest and a spear of five gar . . . .

17. he took and made a burden of it, and carried it [to the ship]

18. Izdubar and Urhamsi rode in the ship

19. the ship the waves took and they . . . .

20. a journey of one month and fifteen days. On the third day in their course

21. took Urhamsi the waters of death . . . .