[8] The name of the mother of Gilgamish has been erroneously read _ri-mat ilat_Nin-lil, or _Rimat-Belit_, see Dhorme 202, 37; 204, 30, etc. But Dr. Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that _Nin-lil_ is an erroneous reading for _Nin-sun_. For _Ninsun_ as mother of Gilgamish see SBP. 153 n. 19 and R.A., IX 113 III 2. _Ri-mat ilat_Nin-sun should be rendered "The wild cow Ninsun." [9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to later tablets, probably III or IV. [10] Rm. 289, latter part of Col. II (part of the Assyrian version) published in HAUPT, _ibid._, 81-4 preserves a defective text of this part of the epic. This tablet has been erroneously assigned to Book IV, but it appears to be Book III. [11] K. 2589 and duplicate (unnumbered) in Haupt, _ibid._, 16-19. [12] See also Ward, No. 199. [13] Here this late text includes both variants _pasaru_ and _zakaru_. The earlier texts have only the one or the other. [14] For _kakabe_; _b_ becomes _u_ and then is reduced to the breathing. [15] The variants have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?-rum_ is a possible reading. The standard Assyrian texts regard Enkidu as the subject. [16] Var. _da-an_ [17] _SAM-KAK_ = _ilu_, net. The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_, "he shook his murderous weapon." For _kissu_ see ZA. 9,220,4 = CT. 12,14b 36, _gis-kud_ = _ki-is-su_. [18] Var. _nussu_ for _nus-su_ = _nussa-su_. The previous translations of this passage are erroneous. [19] This is to my knowledge the first occurence of the infinitive of this verb, _paheru_, not _paharu_. [20] Text _ma_? [21] _istanamma_ > _istilamma_. [22] Cf. Code of Hammurapi IV 52 and Streck in _Babyloniaca_ II 177. [23] Restored from Tab. I Col. IV 21. [24] Cf. Dhorme _Choix de Textes Religieux_ 198, 33. [25] _namastu_ a late form which has followed the analogy of _restu_ in assuming the feminine _t_ as part of the root. The long _u_ is due to analogy with _namassu_ a Sumerian loan-word with nisbe ending. [26] Room for a small sign only, perhaps _A; maiak_? For _maka_, there, see BEHRENS, LSS. II page 1 and index. [27] Infinitive "to shepherd"; see also Poebel, PBS. V 106 I, _ri-ia-u_, _ri-te-ia-u_. [28] The text has clearly _AD-RI_. [29] Or _azzammim_? The word is probably an adverb; hardly a word for cup, mug (??). [30] _it_ is uncertain and _ta_ more likely than _us_. One expects _ittabriru_. Cf. _muttabrirru_, CT. 17, 15, 2; _littatabrar_, EBELING, KTA. 69, 4. [31] For _sapparu_. Text and interpretation uncertain. _uttappis_ II2 from _tapasu_, Hebrew _tapas_, seize. [32] Text _ta_! [33] On _ekesu_, drive away, see Zimmern, _Shurpu_, p. 56. Cf. _uk-kis _ Myhrman, PBS. I 14, 17; _uk-ki-si_, King, Cr. App. V 55; etc., etc. [34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic _nasijia_, and occurs here in Babylonian for the first time. See also Brockelman, _Vergleichende Grammatik_ 160 a.