The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

5. He put on his crown, he bound on the fillet.

6. Then the eyes of the Majesty of the goddess Ishtar lighted on the goodliness of Gilgamish [and she said],

7. "Go to, Gilgamish, thou shalt be my lover.

8. Give me thy [love]-fruit, give to me, I say.

9. Thou shalt be my man, I will be thy woman.

10. I will make to be harnessed for thee a chariot of lapis-lazuli and gold.

11. The wheels thereof shall be of gold and the horns of precious stones.

12. Thou shalt harness daily to it mighty horses.

13. Come into our house with the perfume of the cedar upon thee.

14. When thou enterest into our house