WELD-BLUNDELL COLLECTION.

24. The holy Lugalbanda replied to her:
25. “What has thy brother spoken, what has he commanded?
26. Enmerkar, the son of Shamash—what has he spoken, what has he commanded?
27. Where once the lady, my lady, holy Innini,
28. in the glorious mountain chose him in her pure heart,
29. into brick-walled Kullab may she enter.
30. In Erech let a fountain be and water be poured out.
31. Let earth foundations exist and the sarbatu-tree spring up.
32. Let reeds exist, let grass and ripening grain spring up.
33. May Enki, lord of Eridu,
34. make its verdure good and cause its waters to give life.
35. 3000 years are past; in 3000 years verily it has been built.
36. In Sumer and Akkad altogether
37. the wicked Amorite he shall expel.
38. May the wall of Erech be loftily built and the (nether) plain may it join.
39. Its . . . . and its . . . . my riches shall . . . . . .
40. Like a cow that gazes upon her calf, I look upon my warriors.
41. The son to his mother as to one who causes distress to depart from the city (continued to say):

Col. IV.

1. The lady, my lady, holy Innini,
2. unto brick-walled Kullab . . . . . . . . . . .
3. If her city truly she loves and the painful journey truly she . . . . . . . . . .
4. The temple of the city, why has she despised?

1. The scribe used the correct monumental sign in line 21, but in lines 25-6, the cursive form is adopted.
2. See BL. p. 46 n. 2.
3. Omitted in the original.
4. Omitted on the original.
5. Col. II 18 has a different text.