"Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld" and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle / Alhena Gadotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gadotti, Alhena, author.

Series:

Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie ; Bd. 10.

Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 0502-7012 ; Band 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian.

Epic poetry, Sumerian--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Sumerian.

Gilgamesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

Contents:

On transliteration and coventions

1. Introduction

2. The prologue of "Gilgames̆, Enkidu and the Netherworld"

3. The halub-tree

4. Narrative and poetic structure

5. Enkidu Redivivus

6. The Sumerian Gilgames̆ 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.

Notes:

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614518549

1614518548

9781614515456

161451545X

OCLC:

890070953