"Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld" and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle /

Gadotti, Alhena,

"Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld" and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle / Alhena Gadotti. - 1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations (plates). - Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Arch�aologie, Band 10 0502-7012 ; . - Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Arch�aologie ; Bd. 10. .

Plates run from page 359-430. Revised version of doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Sept. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On transliteration and coventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The prologue of "Gilgame�s, Enkidu and the Netherworld" -- 3. The halub-tree -- 4. Narrative and poetic structure -- 5. Enkidu Redivivus -- 6. The Sumerian Gilgame�s cycle -- 7. Enkidu's return and the catalogue of ghosts : GEN ll. 255-end -- 8. The manuscripts -- The edition -- Translation -- Eclectic text -- Textual matrix -- Commentary -- Appendix.

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Gilgamesh.


Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Sumerian--History and criticism.


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