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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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2. Read [wa]-ar-ki-šú.
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8. Read i-ta-wa-a instead of i-ta-me-a. The word pi-it-tam belongs to line 9! The sign pi is unmistakable. This disposes of note 1 on p. 218.
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9. Read Mi = ṣalmu, “image.” This disposes of Langdon’s note 2 on page 218. Of six notes on this page, four are wrong.
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11. The first sign appears to be si and the second ma. At the end we are perhaps to supply [šá-ki-i pu]-uk-ku-ul, on the basis of the Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 45, šá-ki-i pu-[uk-ku-ul].
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12. Traces at end of line suggest i-pa(?)-ka-du.
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13. Read i-[na mâti da-an e-mu]-ki i-wa.
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18. Read ur-šá-nu instead of ip-šá-nu.
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19. Read i-šá-ru instead of i-tu-ru.
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24. The reading it-ti after dGiš is suggested by the traces.
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25. Read in-ni-[ib-bi-it] at the end of the line.
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28. Read ip-ta-ra-[aṣ a-la]-ak-tam at the end of the line, as in the Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 37.
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30. The conjectural restoration is based on the Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 36.

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

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