We are first told of a quarrel between a mother named Zibanit and her daughter, and that the mother shuts the door of the house, and turns her daughter adrift, the words of the original being “the mother to the daughter opens not her door.” The doings of a man named Zamu have some connection with the affair, his “descending into the street on getting” something being mentioned immediately before the expulsion of the daughter; and at the close we are told of Atarpi, sometimes called Atarpi-nisu, or Atarpi the “man” who had his couch beside the river of the north, and was pious to the gods, but took no notice of these things. When the story next opens, we find the god Bel calling together an assembly of the gods his sons, and relating to them that he is angry at the sin of the world, stating also that he will bring down upon it disease, tempest, distress, madness, burning and sickness. This is followed by the statement that these things came to pass, and Atarpi then invoked his god Hea to remove these evils. For a whole year, it would seem, he interceded for the people, and at last Hea answered, and announced his resolve to destroy the people. After this the story reads: 1. (Hea called) his assembly (by the river) of the north; he said to the gods his sons: 2. ...... I made them 3. .... shall not stretch until before he turns. 4. Their famine I observe, 5. their shame the woman takes not; 6. I will look to judge the people? 7. in their stomach let famine dwell, 8. above let Rimmon drink up his rain, 9. let him drink up below, let not the flood be carried in the canals, 10. let it remove from the field its inundations, 11. let the corn-god give over increase, let blackness overspread the corn, 12. let the plowed fields bring forth thorns, 13. let the growth of their fruit perish, let food not come forth from it, let bread not be produced, 14. let distress also be spread over the people, 15. may favour be shut up, and good not be given. —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— 16. He looked also to judge the people, 17. in their stomach dwelt famine, 18. above Rimmon drank up his rain, 19. he drank it up below, the flood was not carried in the canals, 20. it removed from the field its inundations, 21. the corn-god gave over increase, blackness spread over the corn, 22. the plowed fields brought forth thorns, the growth of their fruit perished, 23. food came not forth from it, bread was not produced, 24. distress was spread over the people, 25. favour was shut up, good was not given. —–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–———–— This will serve to show the style of the tablet. The instrument of punishment was apparently famine from want of rain.