Gilgamesh and Aga: bibliography

Print sources used

Black, Jeremy, "Real and unreal conditional sentences in Sumerian", Acta Sumerologica 17 (1995), 15-39: commentary, translation (Discusses ll. 70-80 and 92-99)

Civil, Miguel, "Reading Gilgamesh", Aula Orientalis 17-18 (1999-2000), 179-189: commentary (Includes details of an unpublished source of ll. 1-60)

Cooper, J.S., "Gilgamesh and Akka: A Review Article", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33 (1981), 224-239: commentary

Edzard, Dietz Otto, "Enmebaragesi von Kish", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 53 (1969), 9-26: commentary

Falkenstein, Adam, "Zu Gilgamesh und Agga", Archiv für Orientforschung 21 (1966), 47-50: commentary

George, Andrew, The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. Allen Lane The Penguin Press: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1999: 143-148: translation

Heimpel, Wolfgang, "A Note on Gilgamesh and Agga", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33 (1981), 242-243: commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, "Early Political Development in Mesopotamia", in Moran, W. L. (ed.), Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1970, 132-157: commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, "Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia", in Moran, W.L. (ed.), Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1970, 157-170: commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once.... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1987, 345-355: translation, commentary

Katz, Diana, "Gilgames and Akka: Was Uruk Ruled by Two Assemblies?", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie orientale 81 (1987), 105-114: commentary

Katz, Diana, "Sumerian Canonical Compositions. B. Royal Focus. 1. Epic: Gilgamesh and Akka (1.171)", in Hallo, William W. (ed.), The Context of Scripture, I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World Brill: Leiden/New York/Köln, 1997, 550-552: translation, commentary

Katz, Diana, Gilgamesh and Akka. Styx: Groningen, 1993: composite text, translation, commentary

Klein, Jacob, "Shulgi and Gilgamesh: Two Brother Peers (Shulgi Hymn O)", in Eichler, Barry L. (ed.), and Heimerdinger, Jane W., and Sjöberg, Ake W., Kramer Anniversary Volume (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 25) Neukirchener Verlag: Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1976, 271-292: commentary

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "Gilgamesh and Akka", American Journal of Archaeology 53 (1949), 1-18: commentary

Lafont, Bertrand, "Review of Katz, Gilgamesh and Akka", Bibliotheca Orientalis 53 (1996), 107-110: commentary

Lambert, W.G., "Akka's Threat", Orientalia 49 (1980), 339-340: commentary

Malamat, A., "Kingship and Council in Israel and Sumer", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 22 (1963), 247-252: commentary

Marík, Tomás, "Bemerkungen zur formalen und inhaltlichen Interpretation des "Gilgamesh und Akka"", Archív Orientální 66 (1998), 265-269: commentary (esp. on l. 79 (97))

Michalowski, Piotr, "Review of Römer 1980", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 45 (1982), 557-578: commentary

Pettinato, Giovanni, "Il bicameralismo a Sumer: un topos literario assunto a realtà storica", Rendiconti dell'Academia Nazionale dei Lincei (1994) Ser. 9, 5, 47-85: commentary

Pettinato, Giovanni, La saga di Gilgamesh. Milano, 1992: 307-311, 399-401: translation, commentary

Römer, W.H.Ph., Das sumerische Kurzepos "Gilgamesh and Akka". (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 290, I) Neukirchener Verlag: Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1980: commentary, translation, composite text

Römer, Willem H.Ph., and Edzard, Dietz Otto, and Kaiser, Otto, Mythen und Epen, 1 (Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, III, 3) Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh, 1993, 549-559: translation, commentary ( (by Römer))

Shaffer, Aaron, and Tournay, R.-J., L'épopée de Gilgamesh. Paris, 1994: 282-291: translation, commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Towards a Reading of 'Gilgamesh and Agga'. Part II: Construction", Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 17 (1986), 33-50: commentary, translation

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Towards a Reading of 'Gilgamesh And Agga'", Aula Orientalis 5 (1987), 129-141: commentary

Wilcke, Claus, "Zu "Gilgamesh und Akka"", in Dietrich, Manfried (ed.), and Loretz, Oswald, dubsar anta-men: Studien zur Altorientalistik: Festschrift für Willem H.Ph. Römer zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres mit Beiträgen von Freunden, Schülern und Kollegen (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 253) Ugarit-Verlag: Münster, 1998, 457-485: commentary, handcopy

Wu, Yuhong, "The earliest war for the water in Mesopotamia: Gilgamesh and Agga", NABU 1998 No. 103: commentary

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

Civil, Miguel (COR3.SPI, 1989: composite text)
Krecher, Joachim and Behrens, H., (LIT1.TXT, 1996: composite text)
Krecher, Joachim and Jagersma, B. (LIT2.TXT, 1996: composite text, translation)
Vanstiphout, Herman L.J. (G&A/ECSL, 1998: composite text, score transliteration, translation)
Wilcke, Claus (GILG-AKA, 1997: composite text)

Cuneiform sources

CBS 4564 (PBS 10/2 5; photo AOAT 209/1 pl. vi)
CBS 6140 (SEM 29; photo AOAT 209/1 pl. vii-viii)
CBS 10355 (AJA 1949 fg. 1, photo pl. 1; FTS fg. 19 [obv.]; photo AOAT 209/1 pl. v; new copy Fs. Römer p. 484) + N 3591 (Fs. Römer p. 484)
CBS 15164 (photo AOAT 209/1 pl. x-xi
HS 1485 (TMH NF 4 5)
HS 1515 (TMH NF 4 6) + Ni 9743 (ISET 2 53; fg. 5)
JRL n/u (BJRL 19 369ff.; photo AOAT 209/1 pl. i-iv)
N 1250 (NABU 1989 99)
N 3563 (Fs. Römer p. 485)
N 4236 (photo AOAT 209/1 pl. ix)
Ni 2302 (SLTN 3)
Ni 2334 (SRT 38)
Ni 4351 (ISET 2 54; fg. 4)
Ni 4396 (ISET 2 20; fg. 3)
Ni 4402 (ISET 2 53; fg. 6)
Ni 4448 (ISET 2 54; fg. 2)

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