Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle /

Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle / / Alhena Gadotti.

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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-e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Gadotti, Alhena,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie : Ergänzungsbände zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Abbreviations
  • On transliteration and conventions
  • Chapter I. “Gilgameš enkidu and the netherworld”: An overview
  • Chapter II. The prologue of “gilgameš, enkidu and the netherworld”
  • Chapter III. The ḫalub-tree
  • Chapter IV. Narrative and poetic structure
  • Chapter V. Enkidu redivivus
  • Chapter VI. The sumerian gilgameš cycle
  • Chapter VII. Enkidu’s return and the catalogue of ghosts: Gen ll. 255–end
  • Chapter VIII. The manuscripts
  • The edition
  • Translation
  • Eclectic text
  • Textual matrix
  • Commentary
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes
  • Plates

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