Of the three tablets in this section, the first one is very uncertain, and is put together from two separate sources: the other two are more complete and satisfactory. TABLET VIII. It is again uncertain if any of this tablet has been discovered; provisionally some fragments of the first, second, third, and sixth columns of a tablet which may belong to it are placed here, but the only fragment worth translating at present is one given in Mr. Smith’s “Assyrian Discoveries,” p. 176. In some portions of these fragments there are references to the story of Khumbaba, but as the fragment appears to refer to the illness of Izdubar it probably belongs here. K. 3588. COLUMN I. 1. .... —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— 2. Hea-bani (his mouth opened and spake and) 3. said to .... 4. I went (?) .... 5. in the .... 6. the door .... 7. of .... 8 and 9. .... 10. in .... 11. Hea-bani .......... 12. with the door .... thy ... 13. the door on its sides does not ... 14. the creation of her ears they are not ... 15. for twenty kaspu (140 miles) I climbed up ... 16. as far as the pine tree a shrub (?) I had seen ... 17. thy tree (?) has not another ... 18. Six gars (120 feet) is thy height, two gars (40 feet) is thy breadth .... 19. thy street, thy blackness (?) thy rain ... 20. I made thee, I raised thee in the city of Nipur .... 21. yea I knew thy door like this ... 22. and this ... 23. I raised its face, I ... 24. I will fill thy bank (?) ..... 25. ..... 26. for he took ... 27. the pine tree, the cedar, ... 28. in its cover ... 29. thou also .... 30. may take ... 31. in the collection of everything ... 32. a great destruction ... 33. the whole of the trees .. 34. in thy land of the tree manubani ... 35. thy bush? is not strong ... 36. thy shadow is not great ... 37. and thy smell is not agreeable ... —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— 38. The manubani tree was angry ... 39. made a likeness? 40. like the tree ... ...... The second, third, fourth and fifth columns appear to be entirely absent, the inscription reappearing on a fragment of the sixth column. COLUMN II. (Many lines lost.) 1. The dream which I saw .... 2. the tops of the mountain .... 3. ... he struck .... 4. he struck when thy royal raiment .... 5. he begat also in .... 6. He recounted to his friend Hea-bani the dream ... 7. My friend, the good omen of the dream .... 8. the dream was deceptive .... 9. My friend, the mountain which thou didst see .... 10. when I captured Khumbaba we .... 11. ... of his helpers Nitakh-garri .... 12. at the time of dawn .... —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— 13. For twenty kaspu they journeyed a stage 14. at thirty kaspu they fixed 15. in the presence of Samas they dug out a pit (?) .... 16. Izdubar ascended also over .... 17. by the side of his house he crossed over .... 18. ... he brought the dream .... 19. he made it and the god .... COLUMN III.