[65] Professor Clay strongly favors an Amoritic origin also for Gilgamesh. His explanation of the name is set forth in his recent work on _The Empire of the Amorites_, page 89, and is also referred to in his work on _Amurru_, page 79, and in his volume of _Miscellaneous Inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian Collection_, page 3, note. According to Professor Clay the original form of the hero's name was West Semitic, and was something like _Bilga-Mash_, the meaning of which was perhaps "the offspring of Mash." For the first element in this division of the name cf. Pilikam, the name of a ruler of an early dynasty, and Balak of the Old Testament. In view of the fact that the axe figures so prominently in the Epic as an instrument wielded by Gilgamesh, Professor Clay furthermore thinks it reasonable to assume that the name was interpreted by the Babylonian scribe as "the axe of Mash." In this way he would account for the use of the determinative for weapons, which is also the sign Gish, in the name. It is certainly noteworthy that the ideogram Gish-Tún in the later form of _Gish-Tún-mash_ = _pasu_, "axe," _CT_ XVI, 38:14b, etc. _Tun_ also = _pilaku_ "axe," _CT_ xii, 10:34b. Names with similar element (besides Pilikam) are Belaku of the Hammurabi period, Bilakku of the Cassite period, etc. It is only proper to add that Professor Jastrow assumes the responsibility for the explanation of the form and etymology of the name Gilgamesh proposed in this volume. The question is one in regard to which legitimate differences of opinion will prevail among scholars until through some chance a definite decision, one way or the other, can be reached. [66] _me-ih-rù_ (line 191). [67] Tablet I, 5, 23. Cf. I, 3, 2 and 29. [68] Tablet IV, 4, 7 and I, 5, 3. [69] Assyrian version, Tablet II, 3b 34, in an address of Shamash to Enkidu. [70] So Assyrian version, Tablet VIII, 3, 11. Also supplied VIII, 5, 20 and 21; and X, 1, 46-47 and 5, 6-7. [71] Tablet XII, 3, 25. [72] Ward, _Seal Cylinders of Western Asia_, Chap. X, and the same author's _Cylinders and other Ancient Oriental Seals_--Morgan collection Nos. 19-50. [73] E.g., Ward No. 192, Enkidu has human legs like Gilgamesh; also No. 189, where it is difficult to say which is Gilgamesh, and which is Enkidu. The clothed one is probably Gilgamesh, though not infrequently Gilgamesh is also represented as nude, or merely with a girdle around his waist. [74] E.g., Ward, Nos. 173, 174, 190, 191, 195 as well as 189 and 192. [75] On the other hand, in Ward Nos. 459 and 461, the conflict between the two heroes is depicted with the heroes distinguished in more conventional fashion, Enkidu having the hoofs of an animal, and also with a varying arrangement of beard and hair. [76] See Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_ (Boston, 1898), p. 468 _seq._ [77] Ungnad-Gressmann, _Das Gilgamesch-Epos_, p. 90 _seq._ [78] Pennsylvania tablet, l. 198 = Assyrian version, Tablet IV, 2, 37.