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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (1920)
translated by Morris Jastrow and Albert Tobias Clay
Front Matter
3638578An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic — Front Matter1920Morris Jastrow and Albert Tobias Clay



YALE ORIENTAL SERIES

RESEARCHES

VOLUME IV

PART III


PUBLISHED FROM THE
FUND GIVEN TO THE UNIVERSITY
IN MEMORY OF
MARY STEVENS HAMMOND

AN OLD BABYLONIAN VERSION
OF THE GILGAMESH EPIC

ON THE BASIS OF RECENTLY DISCOVERED TEXTS


BY
MORRIS JASTROW JR.
, PH.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA


AND
ALBERT T. CLAY, PH.D., LL.D., LITT.D.

PROFESSOR OF ASSYRIOLOGY AND BABYLONIAN LITERATURE
YALE UNIVERSITY



NEW HAVEN

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

MDCCCCXX



Copyright, 1920, by
Yale University Press

In Memory of
WILLIAM MAX MÜLLER
(1863–1919)

WHOSE LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
WHICH HE GREATLY ENRICHED
BY MANY CONTRIBUTIONS

The Introduction, the Commentary to the two tablets, and the Appendix, are by Professor Jastrow, and for these he assumes the sole responsibility. The text of the Yale tablet is by Professor Clay. The transliteration and the translation of the two tablets represent the joint work of the two authors. In the transliteration of the two tablets, C. E. Keiser's "System of Accentuation for Sumero-Akkadian signs" (Yale Oriental Researches—Vol. IX, Appendix, New Haven, 1919) has been followed.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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