"On the fifth day [the two sides of the bark] were raised.--In its covering fourteen in all were its rafters--fourteen in all did it count above.--I placed its roof and I covered it.--I embarked in it on the sixth day; I divided its floors on the seventh;--I divided the interior compartments on the eighth. I stopped up the chinks through which the water entered in;--I visited the chinks and added what was wanting.--I poured on the exterior three times 3,600 measures of asphalte,--and three times 3,600 measures of asphalte within.--Three times 3,600 men, porters, brought on their heads the chests of provisions.--I kept 3,600 chests for the nourishment of my family,--and the mariners divided among themselves twice 3,600 chests.--For [provisioning] I had oxen slain;--I instituted [rations] for each day.--In [anticipation of the need of] drinks, of barrels and of wine--[I collected in quantity] like to the waters of a river, [of provisions] in quantity like to the dust of the earth.--[To arrange them in] the chests I set my hand to.-- ... of the sun ... the vessel was completed.-- ... strong and--I had carried above and below the furniture of the ship.--[This lading filled the two-thirds.] "All that I possessed I gathered together; all I possessed of silver I gathered together; all that I possessed of gold I gathered--all that I possessed of the substance of life of every kind I gathered together.--I made all ascend into the vessel; my servants male and female,--the cattle of the fields, the wild beasts of the plains, and the sons of the people, I made them all ascend." "Shamash (the sun) made the moment determined and----he announced it in these terms: 'In the evening I will cause it to rain abundantly from heaven; enter into the vessel and close the door.'----The fixed moment had arrived, which he announced in these terms: 'In the evening I will cause it to rain abundantly from heaven.'----When the evening of that day arrived, I was afraid,----I entered into the vessel and shut my door.----In shutting the vessel, to Buzur-shadi-rabi, the pilot----I confided this dwelling, with all that it contained. "Mu-sheri-ina-namari[37]--rose from the foundations of heaven in a black cloud;--Ramman[38] thundered in the midst of the cloud--and Nabon and Sharru marched before;--they marched, devastating the mountain and the plain;--Nergal[39] the powerful, dragged chastisements after him;--Adar[40] advanced, overthrowing before him;--the Archangels of the abyss brought destruction--in their terrors they agitated the earth.--The inundation of Ramman swelled up to the sky--and [the earth] became without lustre, was changed into a desert.