[44] Tablet I, 2, 1 and IX, 2, 16. Note also the statement about Gilgamesh that "his body is flesh of the gods" (Tablet IX, 2, 14; X, 1, 7). [45] _BOR_ IV, p. 264. [46] Lewin, _Die Scholien des Theodor bar Koni zur Patriarchengeschichte_ (Berlin, 1905), p. 2. See Gressmann in Ungnad-Gressmann, _Das Gilgamesch-Epos_, p. 83, who points out that the first element of GLMGVS compared with the second of GMYGMVS gives the exact form that we require, namely, Gilgamos. [47] Tablet I, col. 2, is taken up with this episode. [48] See Poebel, _Historical and Grammatical Texts_, p. 123. [49] See Poebel, _Historical Texts_ No. 2, col. 2, 26. [50] Hilprecht, _Old Babylonian Inscriptions_ I, 1 No. 26. [51] Delitzsch, _Assyrische Lesestücke_, p. 88, VI, 2-3. Cf. also _CT_ XXV, 28(K 7659) 3, where we must evidently supply [Esigga]-tuk, for which in the following line we have again Gish-bil-ga-mesh as an equivalent. See Meissner, _OLZ_ 1910, 99. [52] See, e.g., Barton, _Haverford Collection_ II No. 27, Col. I, 14, etc. [53] Deimel, _Pantheon Babylonicum_, p. 95. [54] _CT_ XII, 50 (K 4359) obv. 17. [55] See Barton, _Origin and Development of Babylonian Writing_, II, p. 99 _seq._, for various explanations, though all centering around the same idea of the picture of fire in some form. [56] See the passages quoted by Poebel, _Historical and Grammatical Texts_, p. 126. [57] E.g., Genesis 4, 20, Jabal, "the father of tent-dwelling and cattle holding;" Jubal (4, 21), "the father of harp and pipe striking." [58] See particularly the plays (in the J. Document) upon the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, which are brought forward either as tribal characteristics, or as suggested by some incident or utterance by the mother at the birth of each son. [59] The designation is variously explained by Arabic writers. See Beidhawi's _Commentary_ (ed. Fleischer), to Súra 18, 82. [60] The writing Gish-gi-mash as an approach to the pronunciation Gilgamesh would thus represent the beginning of the artificial process which seeks to interpret the first syllable as "hero." [61] See above, p. 27. [62] Poebel, _Historical Texts_, p. 115 _seq_. [63] Many years ago (_BA_ III, p. 376) I equated Etana with Ethan in the Old Testament--therefore a West Semitic name. [64] See Clay, _The Empire of the Amorites_, p. 80.