[37] The text cannot be correct since it has no intelligible sign. My reading is uncertain.
[38] Text uncertain, _kal-lu-tim_ is possible.
[41] Literally nostrils. _pitik apunnati-su_, work done in his presence(?). The meaning of the idiom is uncertain.
[46] Sic! The plural of _kakku_, _kakkîtu_(?).
[47] Cf. _e-pi-sa-an-su-nu libâru_, "May they see their doings," _Maklu_ VII 17.
[49] On the verb _nâku_ see the Babylonian Book of Proverbs § 27.
[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its preterite _ilut_; see VAB. IV 216, 1. The present tense which occurs here as _ilut_ also.
[51] Note _BUL(tu-ku)_ = _ratatu_ (falsely entered in Meissner, SAI. 7993), and _irattutu_ in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
[53] Sic! _hu_ reduced to the breathing _'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[58] _pataku_ has apparently the same sense originally as _bataku_, although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other _ibtuk_. Cf. also _mahasu_ break, hammer and construct.
[59] The passage is obscure. Here _suhuru_ is taken as a loan-word from sugur = kimmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II1 of _saharu_ is philologically possible.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Epic of Gilgamish, by Stephen Langdon