Introduction to the Text
A brief introduction to the Epic: its origin and significance to our lives.***Image is of the famed eleventh tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which...
Epic of Gilgamesh
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An Annotated Prose RenditionBased upon the OriginalSumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian,and Hittite TabletsWith Supplementary SumerianTexts and Selected Sumerian Proverbs***You may purchase a copy from Amazon.comHere!***
Prologue
Preamble to the adventures, introducing Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and alluding to the goddess Ishtar whose presence is preeminent among all divinity in...
Adventure of Enkidu
The Adventure of Enkidu continues tablet I of the Epic and finishes on tablet II. It is supplemented by Bablyonian material where the Akkadian text is...
Adventure of Forests of Cedar (Part 1)
The text of this episode is much damaged in both the Akkadian and the Babylonian series; rather than indicating the frequent gaps and ambiguities, the...
Adventure of Forests of Cedar (Part 2)
The conclusion of the adventure, the confron-tation with Humbaba.***The image is a Sumerianclay model of the face of Humbaba, said to be the image of ...
Adventure of the Halub Tree
This is the heavily damaged twelfth tablet in the Gilgamesh Epic found in the royal library of Ninevah. It’s content is disconcerting to scholars as t...
Adventure of Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird
Lugalbanda, the ostensible father of Gilgamesh, whose statue stood in his bedroom, which he reverentially anointed with butter, and to which he addres...
5,000 Year Old Proverbs
This is my favorite Sumerian artifact.A so-called “devotional statue,” it dates to 2600 B.C., representing what scholars believe is a married couple. ...
Adventure of the Bull of Heaven (Part 1)
The image is the “Queen of the Night,” a relief of Old Babylonian Empire (1800-1750 BC); it is now housed in the British Museum.This large plaque is m...
Adventure of the Bull of Heaven (Part 2)
A modern clay impression of a Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal, circa 7th century BCE. One of only five with this motif that have survived. Height: 3.9 cm. ...