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Chapter 3  
     
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 The eagle looked at him....  
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 He said [ ] to Etana,
  
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 "You are Etana, king of the wild beasts,
  
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 You are Etana, [ ] among (?) birds.
  
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 Bring me up from this pit
  
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 Give me [ ] your hand,
  
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 "..... [ ],
  
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 I will sing your praises for all time".
  
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 Etana said to the eagle these words:
  
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 "If I save your life, [ ]
  
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 If I bring you up from the pit,
  
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 From that moment we must be .........."
  
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 "[ ] to me [ ]
  
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 "From sunrise till [ ]
  
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 "..... [ ]
  
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 "I will grant you the plant of life".
  
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 When Etana heard this,
  
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 He filled the front of the pit with [ ]
  
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 Next he threw in.... [ ]
  
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 He kept throwing in [ ] in front of him,
  
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 The eagle.... from the pit
  
22.
 As for him, he flapped his wings,
  
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 A first time and a second time... the eagle in the pit,
  
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 As for him, he flapped his wings .....
  
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 A third time and a fourth time... [the eagle ... in? The pit
  
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 As for him, he flapped his wings
 
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 A fifth and a sixth time....  
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 (fragmentary lines, then gap)  
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 He took him by the hand in his seventh month in the pit,
  
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 In the eighth month he brought him over the edge of his pit,
  
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 The eagle took food like a ravening lion,
  
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 He gained strength.
  
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 The eagle made ready to speak and said to Etana,
  
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 "My friend! Let us be friends, you and I!
  
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 Ask of me whatever you desire and I shall give it to you ".
  
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 Etana made ready to speak and said to the eagle:
  
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 "My eyes..... open up what is hidden.
  
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 (gap)  
39.
 Etana and the eagle become friends. Etana has dreams, which he relates to the eage.
 
40.
 [ ] above
  
41.
 [ ] at my feet  
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 The eagle made Etana understand the dream,
  
43.
 [ ] seated before him,  
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 " [ ] your dream is propitious,  
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 " [ ] burden is brought,  
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 " They will give [ ]  
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 " You have done [ ] of the people  
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 " You will seize... in your hand,  
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 " The sacred bond [ ] above  
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 " [ ] at your feet."  
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 Etana said to him, to the eagle.  
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 " My friend, I saw a second dream,  
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 " [ ] reeds [ ] in the house,  
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 In all [ ], the whole land,  
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 " They heaped up loads of them in piles,
  
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 " [ ] enemies, they were wicked serpents,
  
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 " [ ] were coming before me,
  
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 " [ ] they were kneeling before me".
  
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 The eagle made Etana understand the dream
  
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 [ ] seated bore him  
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 "[ ] your dream is propitious"  

 
 
 

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