The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Volume 1"The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context."--Publisher's description. |
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Contents
Transliteration 748 | 13 |
Translation of the Sumerian text 771 | 49 |
Bibliography 906 | 55 |
CUNEIFORM TEXTS Plates 1147 | 61 |
The Name of Gilgameš and its History | 71 |
Literary Historical and Religious Traditions About Gilgameš | 91 |
Enkidu and Others | 138 |
Old Babylonian Tablets and Fragments | 159 |
Tablet III | 458 |
Tablet IV | 463 |
Tablet V | 466 |
Tablet VI | 470 |
Tablet VII | 478 |
Tablet VIII | 484 |
Tablet IX | 490 |
Tablet X | 498 |
Middle Babylonian Tablets and Fragments | 287 |
Assyrian Fragments of One or More Intermediate Versions | 348 |
The Manuscripts of the Standard Babylonian Epic | 379 |
Tablet VI | 404 |
Tablet VII | 406 |
Tablet VIII | 408 |
Tablet IX | 409 |
Tablet X | 410 |
Tablet XI | 411 |
Tablet XII | 415 |
Introduction to the Text of the Standard Babylonian Epic | 418 |
Textual variants and recensional differences | 419 |
Some features of language and style | 431 |
Spelling conventions in the Kuyunjik manuscripts | 437 |
Concluding remarks | 443 |
Synopsis and Exegesis of the Standard Babylonian Epic | 444 |
Tablet II | 455 |
Tablet XI | 508 |
Tablet XII | 528 |
Edition of the Standard Babylonian Epic | 531 |
Tablet I | 535 |
Tablet II | 558 |
Tablet III | 572 |
Tablet IV | 586 |
Tablet V | 602 |
Tablet VI | 616 |
Tablet VII | 632 |
Tablet VIII | 648 |
Tablet IX | 666 |
Tablet X | 676 |
Tablet XI | 700 |
Tablet XII | 726 |
Colophons of the manuscripts | 736 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Volume 1 The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, A. R. George, ISBN 0198149220, 9780198149224 Volume 1 of The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic, A.R George, ISBN 0198149220, 9780198149224 |
| Author | A. R. George |
| Editor | A. R. George |
| Translated by | A. R. George |
| Compiled by | A. R. George |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0199278415, 9780199278411 |
| Length | 986 pages |
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