How to Become a Rich Man

I found employment as a scribe in the hall of records, and long hours each day I labored upon the clay tablets. Week after week and month after month I labored, yet for my earnings I had not to show. Food and clothing and penance to the gods absorbed all my earnings but my determination did not leave me. In one day, Algamesh, the money lender, came to the house of the city master and ordered a copy of the ninth law,. He said to me, I must have this in two days, and if the task is done by that time, two coppers will I give to thee. So I labored hard, but the law was