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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
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Excerpt: [1] Yale Oriental Series Researches Volume IV Part III Published from the fund given to the university in memory of Mary Stevens Hammond [2] The Yale Tablet the Gilgamesh Epic [3] Yale Oriental Series. Researches, Volume IV, 3.An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh EpicOn the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts By Morris Jastrow Jr., Ph.D., LL.D. Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania And Albert T. Clay, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, Yale University [4] Copyright, 1920, by Yale University Press [5] In Memory of William Max Mller (18631919) Whose life was devoted to Egyptological research which he greatly enriched by many contributions [7] Prefatory Note The Introduction, the Commentary to the two tablets, and the Appendix, are by Professor Jastrow, and for these he assumes the sole responsibility. The text of the Yale tablet is by Professor Clay. The transliteration and the translation of the two tablets represent the joint work of the two authors. In the transliteration of the two tablets, C. E. Keisers System of Accentuation for Sumero-Akkadian signs (Yale Oriental ResearchesVOL. IX, Appendix, New Haven, 1919) has been followed. [9] Introduction. The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia. It recounts the exploits and adventures of a favorite hero, and in its final form covers twelve tablets, each tablet consisting of six columns (three on the obverse and three on the reverse) of about 50 lines for each column, or a total of about 3600 lines. Of this total, however, barely more than one-half has been found among the remains of the great collection of cuneiform tablets gathered by King Ashurbanapal (668626 B.C.) in his palace at Nineveh, and discovered by Layard in 18541 in the course of his excavations of the mound Kouyunjik (opposite Mosul). The fragments of the epic painfully gatheredchiefly by George Smit...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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