As this tablet is the most complete of the series, it may not be considered out of place to give here a description of the outward appearance of the document—or, rather, of the documents, for there are many copies. This description will serve, to a certain extent, for all the other tablets of the series, when in their complete state. The size of the document which best shows the form is about 8-½ inches wide, by 5-7/8 inches high. It is rectangular in form, and is inscribed on both sides with three columns of writing (six in all). The total number of lines, as given in the text published in the second edition of the fourth vol. of the _Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia_, is 293, including the catch-line and colophon, but as many of these lines are, in reality, double ones (the scribes frequently squeezed two lines into the space of one, so as to economize space), the original number of the lines was probably nearer 326, or, with the catch-line and colophon, 330. It is probable that the other tablets of the series were not so closely written as this, and in these cases the number of lines is fewer. The tablet opens with the continuation of the conversation between Gilgameš and “Pir-napištim the remote”— “Gilgameš said also to him, to Pir-napištim the remote: ‘I perceive thee, O Pir-napištim, Thy features are not changed—like me art thou, And thou (thyself) art not changed, like me art thou. Put an end in thine heart to the making of resistance, (Here?) art thou placed, does that rise against thee, (Now?) that thou remainest, and hast attained life in the assembly of the gods?’