MESOPOTAMIAN-EPICS
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
provenance
edition · Paul Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos: Keilschrifttext der Bruchstücke der sogenannten Izdubarlegenden mit dem keilinschriftlichen Sintfluthberichte, Abteilung 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1884) — the cuneiform of the Gilgamesh tablets in Haupt's autograph; University of Toronto copy; Paul Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1891) — the issue of 1891, with the eleventh tablet (the flood); Peter Jensen, Assyrisch-babylonische Mythen und Epen (Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek VI/1; Berlin: Reuther, 1900) — Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish and the other myths in transliteration with German translation; Harvard copy; L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation, vol. I: English translations, transliterations, glossary, introduction (London: Luzac, 1902); L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation, vol. II: Supplementary texts (London: Luzac, 1902) — the cuneiform in King's copies; University of Toronto copy
license · payload: Public domain: the tablets are of the first millennium BCE (the Nineveh library, seventh century BCE). Haupt's cuneiform autographs (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1884; 1891), Jensen's Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek VI/1 (Berlin: Reuther, 1900) and King's Seven Tablets of Creation (London: Luzac, 1902) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · The flood story the Bible's flood story answers, a king who seeks to escape death and returns with the knowledge that he cannot, and a creation by the splitting of a body: the oldest written epics of the Near East, beside the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the apocalypses on the shelf.