Boatbuilding (English) in: Near East – Akkadian
1 […] . let it . […
2 […] . like a circle […
3 Let [the pitch] be strong above and below,
4 [..] .. caulk the [boat].
5 [Observe] the appointed time of which I will inform you,
6 Enter [the boat] and close the boat’s door.
7 [Send up into] it your barley, your goods, your property,
8 [Your wife,], your kith, your kin, and the skilled workers.
9 [Creatures] of the steppe, all the wild creatures of the steppe that eat grass,
10 [I] will send to you and they will wait at your door.’
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11 Atra-ḫasīs opened his mouth to speak
12 And addressed Ea, [his] lord,
13 ‘I have never built a boat . [.]
14 Draw the design on the ground
15 That I may see [the design] and [build] the boat.’
16 Ea drew [the design] on the ground.
17 ‘[..] my lord, what you commanded […
(k.i) Akkadian [transliteration] — (k.ii) Wasserman (2020) — (k.iii) Foster (1996) — (k.iv) Lambert & Millard (1969) — (k.v) Bottéro (1989) (French) — (k.vi) Secondary sources
– Lambert, W. G. and Millard, A. R., Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1969), p. 129.
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