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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. Read at the end of the line di-da-šá(?) ip-tí-[e] instead of Di-?-al-lu-un (!).
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5. Supply dEn-ki-dū at the beginning. Traces point to this reading.
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19. Read [gi]-it-ma-[lu] after dGiš, as suggested by the Assyrian version, Tablet I, 4, 38, where emûḳu (“strength”) replaces nepištu of our text.
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20. Read at-[ta kima Sal ta-ḫa]-bu-[ub]-šú.
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21. Read ta-[ra-am-šú ki-ma].
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23. Read as one word ma-a-ag-ri-i-im (“accursed”), spelled in characteristic Hammurabi fashion, instead of dividing into two words ma-a-ak and ri-i-im, as Langdon does, who suggests as a translation “unto the place yonder(?) of the shepherd”(!).
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24. Read im-ta-ḫar instead of im-ta-gar.
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32. Supply ili(?) after ki-ma.
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33. Read šá-ri-i-im as one word.
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35. Read i-na [áš]-ri-šú [im]-ḫu-ru.
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36. Traces at beginning point to either ù or ki (= itti). Restoration of lines 36–39 (perhaps to be distributed into five lines) on the basis of the Assyrian version, Tablet I, 4, 2–5.

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

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