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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

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Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Jastrow, Morris and Clay, Albert Tobias
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4. The first sign is clearly iz, not ta, as Langdon has it in note 1 on page 216.
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9. The fourth sign is su, not šú.
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10. Separate e-eš (“why”) from the following. Read ta-ḫi-[il], followed, perhaps, by la. The last sign is not certain; it may be ma.
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11. Read lim-nu instead of mi-nu. In the same line read a-la-ku ma-na-aḫ-[ti]-ka instead of a-la-ku-zu(!) na-aḫ … ma, which, naturally, Langdon cannot translate.
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16. Read e-lu-tim instead of pa-a-ta-tim. The first sign of the line, tu, is not certain, because apparently written over an erasure. The second sign may be a. Some one has scratched the tablet at this point.
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18. Read uk-la-at âli (?) instead of ug-ad-ad-lil, which gives no possible sense!

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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, Project Gutenberg eBook #11000

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