1. ... he brought the dream .... 2. he made it and the god .... 3. ... turban? .... 4. he cast him down and .... 5. the mountain like corn of the field .... 6. Izdubar at the destruction (?) set up .... 7. Anatu the troubler of men upon him struck, 8. and in the struggle his going he stayed. 9. He spake and said to his friend: 10. My friend thou dost not ask me why I am naked, 11. thou dost not inquire of me why I am spoiled, 12. because the god passed over, wherefore my limbs are hot. 13. My friend I saw a third dream; 14. that dream which I saw entirely disappeared. 15. They prayed; the god thunders on the ground. 16. He burnt up the exit of the darkness; 17. the lightning struck; a fire was kindled; 18. .... they took away; it rained death. 19. The glow also (disappeared), the fire sank, 20. .... they struck; it turned to a palm tree, 21. in the desert also thy lord took (his) path (?). 22. And Hea-bani his dream considered; he said to Izdubar: 23. .... Samas thy lord, the creator .... The fourth and fifth columns of this tablet are lost. This part of the legend appears to refer to the illness of Izdubar. COLUMN VI. 1. My friend ... the dream which is not ... 2. the day he dreamed the dream, the end ... —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— 3. Hea-bani lay down also one day ... 4. which Hea-bani on (his) bed ... 5. the third day and the fourth day which ... 6. the fifth, and sixth, and seventh (days) ... 7. the eighth (and ninth, and tenth days) .... 8. when Hea-bani was sick ... 9. the eleventh and twelfth (days) ... 10. Hea-bani on (his) bed ... 11. Izdubar read also ... 12. Did my friend defend me ... 13. whenever in the midst of fight ... 14. I turn (?) to battle and ... 15. my friend who in battle ... 16. I in ...... It must here be noted that Mr. Smith’s grounds for making this the eighth tablet were extremely doubtful, and it is possible that the fragments are of different tablets; but they fill up an evident blank in the story here, and they are consequently inserted pending further discoveries as to their true position. In the first column Hea-bani appears to be addressing certain trees, and they are supposed to have the power of hearing and answering him. Hea-bani praises one tree and sneers at another, but from the mutilation of the text it does not appear why he acts so. We may conjecture he was seeking a charm to open a door he mentions, and that according to the story this charm was known to the trees. The fragment of the sixth column shows Hea-bani unable to interpret a dream, while Izdubar asks his friend to fight. After this happened the violent death of Hea-bani, which added to the misfortunes of Izdubar; but no fragment of this part of the story is preserved. TABLET IX.