The Epic of Gilgamish
Reading edition
by Stephen Langdon
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally, according to the Note 2 · The prehistoric Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm of myth and legend. Nevertheless these rulers, although appearing in Note 3 · A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed that tNote 4 · The last line of Col. I corresponds to the Assyrian version Book I, Col. VI 29. From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto un