COL. III
1Milk of the cattle
2he drank.
3Food they placed before him.
4He broke bread[4]
5gazing and looking.
6But Enkidu understood not.
7Bread to eat,
8beer to drink,
10The hierodule opened her mouth
11and said unto Enkidu:—
12“Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
13It is the conformity of life,
14of the conditions and the fate of the land.”
15Enkidu ate bread,
16until he was satiated.
17Beer he drank
18seven times(?).
19His thoughts became unbounded and he shouted loudly.
20His heart became joyful,
21and his face glowed.
22He stroked.................
23the hair of the head.[5] His body
24with oil he anointed.
25He became like a man.
26He attired himself with clothes
27even as does a husband.
28He seized his weapon,
29which the panther and lion
30fells in the night time cruelly.
31He captured the wild mountain goats.
32The panther he conquered.
33Among the great sheep for sacrifice
34Enkidu was their guard.
35A man, a leader,
36A hero.
37Unto .......... he elevated
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