[Uta-Napishtim Ends his Story of the Deluge.]
Reading edition
205. "And they took me away to a place afar off, and made me to dwell at the mouth of the rivers."
The contents of the remainder of the text on the Eleventh Tablet of the Gilgamish Series are described on p. 54.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · A transcript of the cuneiform text by George Smith, who was the first to translate it, will be found in Rawlinson, Cuneiform Inscriptions ofNote 2 · The site of this very ancient city is marked by the mounds of Fârah, near the Shaṭṭ al-Kâr, which is probably the old bed of the river EuphrNote 3 · Like the habûb of modern times, a sort of cyclone.Note 4 · The star-gods of the southern sky.Note 5 · The star-gods of the northern heaven.