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

:	Alhena Gadotti
:	Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9781614518549
:	Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen ArchäologieISSN
:	1
:	CHF 177.40
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:	Altertum
:	English

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Providing a new perspective on the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, Alhena Gadotti argues that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle was developed as early as Ur III, and thatGilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworldwas the first, not the last story of this cycle. Prompted by several texts that have come to light since Aaron Shaffer's 1963 publication of the text, this book offers a new edition and a re-examination of the composition.

Alhena Gadotti, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.

	Table of Contents	9
	Acknowledgements	7
	Abbreviations	13
	On Transliteration and Conventions	15
	CHAPTER I. “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”: An Overview	17
	1. Status Quaestionis	19
	2. Summary of the Composition	20
	CHAPTER II. The Prologue of “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”	23
	1. Status Quaestionis	23
	2. The Cosmology of the Prologue: GEN 1-13	26
	3. The Journey of Enki to the kur: GEN 14-26	30
	3.1 The Destination of Enki’s Journey	31
	3.2 The Outcome of Enki’s Journey	33
	3.3 The Reasons for Enki’s Journey	33
	3.4 The Waters to the Netherworld	34
	3.5 The Attack against Enki	35
	3.6 The Function of the Story	37
	4. The Function of the Prologue I: GEN	37
	5. The Function of the Prologue II: The Sumerian Gilgameš Cycle	39
	6. Conclusions	41
	CHAPTER III. The .alub-Tree	43
	1. Introduction	43
	2. The .alub-Tree in Lexical Lists	44
	3. The .alub-Tree in the Third Millennium BCE Royal Inscriptions	45
	4. The mes-.alub-Tree in the Administrative Texts from Early Dynastic IIIb Girsu	47
	5. The .alub-Tree in the Administrative texts from Ur III Period	48
	6. The .alub-Tree in Ur III Incantations	51
	7. The .alub-Tree in Sumerian Literary Compositions	52
	8. The .a-lu-úb .ar-ra-an	58
	9. The .uluppu-Tree in Akkadian Sources	60
	10. Conclusions: The Epigraphic Evidence	62
	11. .alub = Mahlab Cherry	63
	12. Conclusions	64
	CHAPTER IV. Narrative and Poetic Structure	67
	1. Status Quaestionis	67
	2. Poetic Structure	69
	3. Narrative Structure	75
	4. Analysis of the Narrative Units	78
	4.1 Prologue	78
	4.2 The ?alub-tree episode	80
	4.3 The Ballgame	84
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