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. The other version proceeds thus:—
46. 'I fashioned its side, and closed it in;
47. I built six storeys (?), I divided it into seven parts;