The new melody has been inserted between melodies three and four of the standard text. If evidence did not point otherwise the editor would have supposed that Ni. 8384 and 11876 belonged to the same tablet. But Ni. 8384 has melodies four, five and six of its redaction with the catch-line of the next or its seventh melody which partly duplicates the Radau tablet. Moreover, these two tablets have not the same handwriting and differ in color and texture of the clay. Finally a small fragment, Ni. 14031, contains the end of the second melody and the beginning of the third on its obverse. The reverse contains the end of the sixth melody. This small tablet undoubtedly belongs to the four column tablet in Constantinople. The two fragments became separated by chance when the Nippur Collection was divided between Philadelphia and the Musée Imperial of Turkey. Ni. 14031 will be found in my _Sumerian Liturgical Texts_, No. 22. Under ordinary circumstances a text for which so many duplicates exist should have yielded better results than I have been able to produce. But the contents are still obscure owing largely to the bad condition of the prism. My first rendering of the interesting refrain in which I saw a reference to the creation of man and woman was apparently erroneous. The refrain refers rather to the creation of the mother goddess of Keš and to her giving birth to her son Negun.(423) COL. I (Lines 1-22 defaced) ... 23. _[é ke]š-(ki)-dug-ga dū-a_ 23. [Temple] in holy Keš builded. 24. _[é(?)] ÉN-ḪAR-(ki)-dug-gu dū-a_ 24. [Temple(?)] in holy _EN-ḪAR_ builded. 25. _[é ...] nun-gim an-na dirig-ga_ 25. [Temple] like ... _nun_, like heaven exceeding all.(424) 26. _[é ...] azag-gim ? -si ri-a_ 26. [Temple] like the pure ... clothed in 27. _[é] an-na-gim mūš kur-kur-ra_ 27. [Temple] like heaven the illumination of the lands. 28. _[é ...] tūr-gim ki-a-ta sur-sur-ra_ 28. [Temple] like ... _tur_ in the earth _founded_. 29. _[é ...-]gim mur-du ninda_(_425_)_-gim gù-nun-di_(_426_) 29. [Temple] like ... roaring, like a _young bull_ bellowing. 30. _[é ...] bi-ta lipiš kalam-ma_ 30. [Temple] in whose ... the hearts of the creatures of the Land ...(427) 31. _[é ...] bi-ta zid Ki-en-gi-ra_ 31. [Temple] in whose ... the soul of life of Sumer ... 32. _[é ...] ib-gal an-e-ri_(_428_)_ uš-sa_ 32. [Temple], great ... _IB_, attaining unto heaven. 33. _[é ...]-da-gal an-e_(_429_)_ uš-sa_ 33. [Temple], great ... _da_, attaining unto heaven. 34. _[é ...] gal an-e uš-sa_ 34. [Temple], great ..., attaining unto heaven. 35. _[é ...] -na [an-e] uš-sa_ 35. [Temple ...], attaining unto heaven. COL. II 1. _... an-ki ..._ 1. ... heaven and earth ... 2. _... abzu ..._ 2. ... of the nether-sea ... 3. _é an-ni(?) šu-[ ]_ 3. Temple which Anu ... 4. _d.__En-lil-li zag-šú ..._ 4. Enlil above all ... 5. _ama __d.__Nin-tud eš-[bar-kin ... ]_ 5. The mother, Nintud oracles ... 6. _é Keš-ki ... na ..._ 6. Temple in Keš ...