36. It was the ninth day whose month is ninth, the month of the height of the waters.
37. Like fat, like fat, like abundant sweet oil,
38. Ninkurra like fat had brought them forth.
39. The god Tagtug and his wife she received;
40. Ninkurra to Tagtug [and his wife] spoke:
41. “Verily I will help (?) thee, my upright one, ..........
42. With favorable words I speak ..........
43. One man for me shall be counted ..........
44. Enki for me shall ..........
The rest of the column, consisting of two or three lines, is missing. The repetition in this column is characteristic of early poetry. Primitive peoples are fond of iteration, and in the description of the way the waters came it was to them very effective.