guru

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Morris Jastrow

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1. Page 68. Col. VI. (About four lines missing.) 208šar(?)-ḫa 209dGiš … 210i-na ṣi-ri-[šú il-li-k
2. Page 62. Translation.
3. Page 62. Col. I. 1Gish sought to interpret the dream; 2Spoke to his mother: 3“My mother, durin
4. Page 63. Col II. 41(means) that he is to be associated with thee.” 42Gish understood the dream
5. Page 64. Col. III. 81Milk of the cattle 82He was accustomed to suck. 83Food they placed before
6. Page 65. Col. IV. (About eight lines missing.) 131Making merry. 132He lifted up his eyes, 133H
7. Page 67. Col. V. (About six lines missing.) 171[Enkidu] went [in front], 172And the courtesan
8. Page 68. Col. VI. (About four lines missing.) 208Strong(?) … 209Gish 210Against him [Enkidu pr
9. Page 69. Commentary on the Pennsylvania Tablet. Line 1. The verb tibû with pašâru expresses th
10. Page 69. Line 9. For nuššašu ûl iltê we have a parallel in the Hebrew phrase נלְַפָסֵתִי נשַׂפ
11. Page 70. Line 26. Cf. Assyrian version I, 6, 21—a complete parallel. Line 28. Uruk ri-bi-tim,
12. Page 70. h an allusion to the tradition which ascribed the building of the wall of the city to
13. Page 71. Line 31. A difficult line for which Langdon proposes the translation: “Another axe se
14. Page 71. ”Ḫuwawa heard and his face was changed” precisely, therefore, as we should say—follow
15. Page 72. [dEn-ki-dũ wa-ši-ib] ma-ḫar-šá. Line 44. The restoration of this line is largely conj
16. Page 73. Lines 49–59 run parallel to the Assyrian version I, 4, 33–38, with slight variations
17. Page 74. Line 72. The restoration “like a god” is favored by line 51, where Enkidu is likened
18. Page 75. Line 94. Langdon’s strange rendering “of the conditions and fate of the land” rests u
19. Page 75. Line 103. Langdon has correctly rendered šuḫuru as “hair,” and has seen that we have
20. Page 76. Ê suḫur(ra) (i.e., house of the hair) = šú-ḫu-ru. In view of all this, we may regard
21. Page 76. Isaiah being a reference to Assyria, the prophet might be tempted to use a foreign wo
22. Page 77. Line 113. Langdon’s translation is again out of the question and purely fanciful. The
23. Page 78. The break at the close of column 3 (about 5 lines) and the top of column 4 (about 8 l
24. Page 78. on attached to the story of Enkidu, who, identified with man in a primitive stage, is
25. Page 79. Line 141. The reading lim-nu at the beginning, instead of Langdon’s mi-nu, is quite c
26. Page 80. Line 148. The reading uk-la-at, “food,” and then in the wider sense “food supply,” “p
27. Page 80. Line 150 (repeated lines 152–153) is a puzzling line. To render piti pûk epši (or epi
28. Page 81. Line 154. aššat šimâtim is the “legitimate wife,” and the line inculcates monogamy as
29. Page 81. Line 158. i-na bi-ti-iḳ a-bu-un-na-ti-šú. Another puzzling line, for which Langdon pr
30. Page 81. in concluding the address to Enkidu, emphasize in a picturesque way that what has bee
31. Page 83. Line 183 can be restored with considerable probability on the basis of the Assyrian v
32. Page 83. Line 191. šakiššum = šakin-šum, as correctly explained by Langdon. Line 192. With thi
33. Page 83. ion of the fight between the two heroes, and leave the further explanation of the epi
34. Page 85. Lines 218–228. The detailed description of the fight between the two heroes is only p
35. Page 85. Line 236. On this title “wild cow of the stall” for Ninsun, see Poebel in OLZ 1914, p
36. Page 86. Line 242. As has been pointed out in the corrections to the text (Appendix), šú-tu-ur
37. Page 87. Yale Tablet.
38. Page 87. Transliteration. (About ten lines missing.)
39. Page 87. Col. I. 11.................. [ib]-ri(?) 12[mi-im-ma(?) šá(?)]-kú-tu wa(?)-ak-rum 13[a
40. Page 87. Col. II. (About eleven lines missing.) 57... šú(?)-mu(?) ............... 58ma-ḫi-ra-a
41. Page 88. Col. III. 96..... [a-di dḪu]-wa-wa da-pi-nu 97.................. ra-[am(?)-ma] 98....
42. Page 90. Col. IV. 136áš-šúm šú-ul-lu-m[u ki-iš-ti šáiṣerini] 137pu-ul-ḫi-a-tim 7 [šú(?) i-šim-
43. Page 91. Col. V. 181dGiš šá i-ga-ab-bu-ú lu-mu-ur 182šá šú-um-šú it-ta-nam-ma-la ma-ta-tum 183
44. Page 93. Col. VI. 229[a-na-ku] dGiš [i-ik]-ka-di ma-tum 230........... ḫarrana šá la al-[kam]
45. Page 95. L.E. 281.............. nam-ma-la 282............... il-li-ku it-ti-ia 283............
46. Page 87. Translation. (About ten lines missing.)
47. Page 87. Col. I. 11.................. (my friend?) 12[Something] that is exceedingly difficult
48. Page 87. Col. II. (About eleven lines missing.) 57.......... name(?) ............. 58[The one
49. Page 88. Col. III. 96..... [until] Ḫuwawa, [the terrible], 97........................ 98......
50. Page 90. Col. IV. 136To keep safe [the cedar forest], 137[Enlil has decreed for it] seven-fold
51. Page 91. Col. V. 181Gish of whom they speak, let me see! 182whose name fills the lands. 183I w
52. Page 93. Col. VI. 229”[I(?)] Gish, the strong one (?) of the land. 230...... A road which I ha
53. Page 95. L.E. 281............... were filled. 282.......... they will go with me. 283.........
54. Page 96. Line 100. For ḫalbu, “jungle,” see Assyrian version, Tablet V, 3, 39 (p. 160). Lines
55. Page 97. Line 149. A difficult line because of the uncertainty of the reading at the beginning
56. Page 98. Line 162. While the restoration belê, “weapon,” is purely conjectural, the context cl
57. Page 98. Lines 168–170 describe the forging of the various parts of the lances for the two her
58. Page 99. Line 192. On the phrase šanû bunu, “change of countenance,” in the sense of “enraged,
59. Page 99. Line 229. It is much to be regretted that this line is so badly preserved, for it wou
60. Page 100. Lines 237–244 describe the arming of the hero by the “master” craftsman. In addition
61. Page 101. [Note on Sabitum (above, p. 11) In a communication before the Oriental Club of Philad
62. Page 101. de §§108–111. The bad reputation of inns is confirmed by these statutes, for the hous
63. Page 103. Corrections to the Text of Langdon’s Edition of the Pennsylvania Tablet.1
64. Page 103. Column 1. 5. Read it-lu-tim (“heroes”) instead of id-da-tim (“omens”). 6. Read ka-ka-
65. Page 103. Column 2. 4. Read at the end of the line di-da-šá(?) ip-tí-[e] instead of Di-?-al-lu-
66. Page 104. Column 3. 14. Read Kàš (= šikaram, “wine”) ši-ti, “drink,” as in line 17, instead of
67. Page 104. Column 4. 4. The first sign is clearly iz, not ta, as Langdon has it in note 1 on pag
68. Page 105. Column 5. 2. Read [wa]-ar-ki-šú. 8. Read i-ta-wa-a instead of i-ta-me-a. The word pi-
69. Page 105. Column 6. 3. Read i-na ṣi-ri-[šú]. 5. Supply [il-li-ik]. 21. Langdon’s text has a sup
70. Page 106. Plates
71. Page 106. Plate I. The Yale Tablet.
72. Page 106. Plate II. The Yale Tablet.
73. Page 106. Plate III. The Yale Tablet.
74. Page 106. Plate IV. The Yale Tablet.
75. Page 106. Plate V. The Yale Tablet.
76. Page 106. Plate VI. The Yale Tablet.
77. Page 106. Plate VII. The Yale Tablet.