The present text is a duplicate of Ki. 1904–10–9, 87 (for a copy of which see AJSL., vol. xxxv, p. 138, and for transcription and translation Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, vol. vi, p. 32), as indeed has been already noted by Güterbock (ZA., xlii, p. 9). But the fragment previously published was so small as to be scarcely intelligible, and the present fragment (K. 5119) throws a great deal more light upon the real nature of this text. It is probably, as will be shown, a text concerning Etana, thirteenth king of the first dynasty of Kish and subject of the famous myth in which he ascends to heaven on the back of an eagle in search of the plant of birth; but it is a type of text not hitherto associated with that hero.