Tablet XI, Section 1g

Would I had turn’d and abandon’d the boat at the marge (of the ocean)!" Broke they their fast at the fortieth hour: at the sixtieth rested, (So in the end) to the middle of Erech, the high-wall’d, arrivéd. ________________________________ . Gilgamish spake to him, (yea), to the boatman Ur-Shanabi (this wise): "Do thou, Ur-Shanabi, go up and walk on the ramparts of Erech, Look on its base, and take heed of its bricks, if its bricks be not kiln-burnt, 305. (Aye), and its ground-work be not bitumen, e’en seven courses, One shar the city, (and) one shar the gardens, and one shar the (2) . . . . the Temple of Ishtar, amass’d I three shar and . . . (?) of Erech .