[flocks] of birds, shoals of fish.' _Lines 32 to 42 are lost_.
43.

On the fifth day I laid the plan of it (i.e.the ship); 44.

in its hull ( ?) its walls were 10 _gar_ (120 cubits ?) high; 45.

10 _gar_ were the size of its upper part.' Another version of the account of the Deluge, of which a fragment has been preserved, puts a wholly different speech into the mouth of Ea, and gives the hero of the story the name of Adra-Khasis.

This fragment is as follows:-- 'I will judge him above and below, [But] shut [not thou thy door] [until] the time that I shall tell thee of.
[Then] enter the ship, and close the door of the vessel.
[Bring into] it thy corn, thy goods, [thy] property, thy [wife], thy slaves, thy handmaids, and the sons of [thy] people, the [cattle] of the field, the beasts of the field, as many as I appoint ...
I will tell thee of (the time), and the door [of thy ship] shall preserve them.' Adra-Khasis opened his mouth and says, he speaks to Ea [his] lord: '[O my lord,] none has ever made a ship [on this wise] that it should sail over the land.' ...
Here the fragment is broken off.