Line 144. _bi-ti-is e-mu-ti_ is for _bîti sá e-mu-ti_, just as _kab-lu-us Ti-a-ma-ti_ (Assyrian Creation Myth, IV, 65) stands for _kablu sá Tiamti_. Cf. _bît e-mu-ti_ (Assyrian version, IV, 2, 46 and 48). The end of the line is lost beyond recovery, but the general sense is clear. Line 146. _tu-a-ar_ is a possible reading. It may be the construct of _tu-a-ru_, of frequent occurrence in legal texts and having some such meaning as "right," "claim" or "prerogative." See the passages given by Muss-Arnolt, _Assyrian Dictionary_, p. 1139b. Line 148. The reading _uk-la-at_, "food," and then in the wider sense "food supply," "provisions," is quite certain. The fourth sign looks like the one for "city." _E-mi-sa_ may stand for _e-mid-sa_, "place it." The general sense of the line, at all events, is clear, as giving the advice to gather resources. It fits in with the Babylonian outlook on life to regard work and wealth as the fruits of work and as a proper purpose in life. Line 150 (repeated lines 152-153) is a puzzling line. To render _piti pûk epsi_ (or _episi_), as Langdon proposes, "open, addressing thy speech," is philologically and in every other respect inadmissible. The word _pu-uk_ (which Langdon takes for "thy mouth"!!) can, of course, be nothing but the construct form of _pukku_, which occurs in the Assyrian version in the sense of "net" (_pu-uk-ku_ I, 2, 9 and 21, and also in the colophon to the eleventh tablet furnishing the beginning of the twelfth tablet (Haupt's edition No. 56), as well as in column 2, 29, and column 3, 6, of this twelfth tablet). In the two last named passages _pukku_ is a synonym of _mekû_, which from the general meaning of "enclosure" comes to be a euphemistic expression for the female organ. So, for example, in the Assyrian Creation Myth, Tablet IV, 66 (synonym of _kablu_, "waist," etc.). See Holma, _Namen der Körperteile_, page 158. Our word _pukku_ must be taken in this same sense as a designation of the female organ--perhaps more specifically the "hymen" as the "net," though the womb in general might also be designated as a "net" or "enclosure." _Kak-(si)_ is no doubt to be read _epsi_, as Langdon correctly saw; or perhaps better, _episi_. An expression like _ip-si-sú lul-la-a_ (Assyrian version, I, 4, 13; also line 19, _i-pu-us-su-ma lul-la-a_), with the explanation _sipir zinnisti_, "the work of woman" (i.e., after the fashion of woman), shows that _epêsu_ is used in connection with the sexual act. The phrase _pitî pûk episi a-na ha-a-a-ri_, literally "open the net, perform the act for marriage," therefore designates the fulfillment of the marriage act, and the line is intended to point to marriage with the accompanying sexual intercourse as one of the duties of man. While the general meaning is thus clear, the introduction of Gish is puzzling, except on the supposition that lines 149 and 151 represent later additions to connect the speech, detailing the advance to civilized life, with the hero. See above, p.