An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh EpicJastrow, Morris
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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
Jastrow, Morris
Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
31. _sib-ba-ri_ is not "mountain goat," nor can _ut-tap-pi-is_ mean
"capture." The first word means "dagger," and the second "he drew out."
33. Read _it-ti-[lu] na-ki-[di-e]_, instead of _itti immer nakie_
which yields no sense. Langdon's rendering, even on the basis of his
reading of the line, is a grammatical monstrosity.
35. Read _gis_ instead of _wa_.
37. Read perhaps _a-na [na-ki-di-e i]- za-ak-ki-ir_.
Column 4.
4. The first sign is clearly _iz_, not _ta_, as Langdon has it in
note 1 on page 216.
9. The fourth sign is _su_, not _sú_.
10. Separate _e-es_ ("why") from the following. Read _ta-hi-[il]_,
followed, perhaps, by _la_. The last sign is not certain; it may
be _ma_.
11. Read _lim-nu_ instead of _mi-nu_. In the same line read _a-la-ku
ma-na-ah-[ti]-ka_ instead of _a-la-ku-zu_(!) _na-ah ... ma_, which,
naturally, Langdon cannot translate.
16. Read _e-lu-tim_ instead of _pa-a-ta-tim_. The first sign of
the line, _tu_, is not certain, because apparently written over an
erasure. The second sign may be _a_. Some one has scratched the tablet
at this point.
18. Read _uk-la-at âli_ (?) instead of _ug-ad-ad-lil_, which gives
no possible sense!
Column 5.
2. Read _[wa]-ar-ki-sú_.
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.
9. Read Mi = _salmu_, "image." This disposes of Langdon's note 2 on
page 218. Of six notes on this page, four are wrong.
11. The first sign appears to be _si_ and the second _ma_. At the
end we are perhaps to supply _[sá-ki-i pu]-uk-ku-ul_, on the basis
of the Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 45, _sá-ki-i pu-[uk-ku-ul]_.
12. Traces at end of line suggest _i-pa(?)-ka-du_.
13. Read _i-[na mâti da-an e-mu]-ki i-wa_.
18. Read _ur-sá-nu_ instead of _ip-sá-nu_.
19. Read _i-sá-ru_ instead of _i-tu-ru_.
24. The reading _it-ti_ after _d_Gis is suggested by the traces.
25. Read _in-ni-[ib-bi-it]_ at the end of the line.
28. Read _ip-ta-ra-[as a-la]-ak-tam_ at the end of the line, as in
the Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 37.
30. The conjectural restoration is based on the Assyrian version,
Tablet IV, 2, 36.
Column 6.
3. Read _i-na si-ri-[sú]_.
5. Supply _[il-li-ik]_.
21. Langdon's text has a superfluous _ga_.
22. Read _uz-za-sú_, "his anger," instead of _us-sa-sú_, "his javelin"
(!).
23. Read _i-ni-ih i-ra-as-su_, i.e., "his breast was quieted," in
the sense of "his anger was appeased."
31. Read _ri-es-ka_ instead of _ri-es-su_.
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