A garden of borrowed words.
Today's passage · August 6
Column 2. 4. Read at the end of the line di-da-šá(?) ip-tí-[e] instead of Di-?-al-lu-un (!). 5. Supply dEn-ki-dū at the beginning. Traces point to this reading. 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. 20. Read at-[ta kima Sal ta-ḫa]-bu-[ub]-šú. 21. Read ta-[ra-am-šú ki-ma]. 23.
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, Morris Jastrow, p. 103