With these words the second paragraph comes to an end, the total number of lost or greatly mutilated lines being about nine. Very little of the contents of these lines can be made out, as not much more than traces of words remain. Where the lines begin to become fairly complete, the text seems to refer to the building of the ship, upon which four days had already been spent, its form being laid down on the fifth day. The description of the building, which is somewhat minute, is exceedingly difficult to translate, and any rendering of it must therefore, at the present time, be regarded as tentative. Its bulwarks seem to have risen four measures, and a deck (apparently) is mentioned. Its interior was pitched with six _šar_ of bitumen, and its outside with three _šar_ of pitch, or bitumen of a different kind. The provisionment of the vessel is next described, but this part is mutilated. A quantity of oil for the crew and pilot is referred to, and oxen were also slaughtered, apparently as a propitiatory sacrifice on the completion of the vessel. Various kinds of drink were then brought on board, both intoxicating and otherwise, plentiful (this may be regarded as the word to be supplied here) “like the waters of a river.” After this we have references to the completion of certain details—holes for the cables above and below, etc., and with this the third paragraph comes to an end. In the next paragraph Pir-napištim collects his goods and his family, and enters into the ark:— “All I possessed I transferred thereto, All I possessed I transferred thereto, silver, All I possessed I transferred thereto, gold; All I possessed I transferred thereto, the seed of life, the whole I caused to go up into the midst of the ship. All my family and relatives, The beasts of the field, the animals of the field, the sons of the artificers—all of them I sent up. The god Šamaš appointed the time— _Muir kukki_—In the night I will cause the heavens to rain destruction, Enter into the midst of the ship and shut thy door.” “That time approached— _Muir kukki_—In the night the heavens rained destruction. I saw the appearance of the day: I was afraid to look upon the day— I entered into the midst of the ship, and shut my door. For the guiding of the ship, to Buzur-Kurgala, the pilot, I gave the great house with its goods.