The death of Gilgamesh: bibliography

Print sources used

Cavigneaux, Antoine, and Al--Rawi, Farouk N.H., Gilgamesh et la Mort. Texts de Tell Haddad VI, avec un appendice sur les textes funéraires sumériens. (Cuneiform Monographs, 19) Styx Publications: Groningen, 2000: score transliteration, composite text, handcopy, photograph, translation, 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: 195-208: translation

Jacobsen, Thorkild, "Death in Mesopotamia (Abstract)", in Alster, Bendt (ed.), Death in Mesopotamia. Papers Read at the XXVIe Rencontre assyriologique internationale (Mesopotamia, 8) Akademisk Forlag: Copenhagen, 1980, 19-24: composite text, translation, commentary (ll. 33-46)

Klein, Jacob, "The 'Bane' of Humanity: a Lifespan of One Hundred Twenty Years", Acta Sumerologica 12 (1990), 57-70: composite text, translation, commentary (ll. 35-46)

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "The Death of Gilgamesh", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 94 (1944), 2-12: commentary, translation, composite text, handcopy

van Dijk, J., "VAT 8382: Ein zweisprachiges Königsritual", in Edzard, D.O. (ed.), Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient. Adam Falkenstein zum 17. September 1966 Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 1967, 233-268: composite text, translation, commentary (ll. 25--34)

Wilcke, Claus, "Eine Schicksalsentscheidung für den toten UrNammu", in Finet, André (ed.), Actes de la XVIIe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 30 juin-4 juillet 1969 (Publications de Comite Belge de Recherches Historiques, Épigraphiques et Archéologiques en Mésopotamie, 1) Comité belge de recherches en Mésopotamie: Ham-sur-Heure, 1970, 81-92: commentary

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

Black, Jeremy A. (Death of Gilgamesh, 1997: composite text)

Cuneiform sources

CBS 6966 (SEM 24) + CBS 7900 (SEM 25) (+) N 3189 + N 3190 (photo CM 19 pl. i--ii)
CBS 8551 (SEM 28) (+) N 6856 (CM 19 fig. 2; photo pl. iii)
UM 29--16--86 (BASOR 94 p. 5)
Ni 4136 ((ISET 2 54)
Ni 9536 (ISET 3)
Ni 9488 (ISET 3)
H 172 (CM 19 fig. 7)
H 143 + 136 A + 189 + 136 B (CM 19 figs. 5--7)
H 137 (CM 19 fig. 8)
H 151 A (CM 19 fig. 7)
Box 1, no. 1 (CM 19 fig. 9)
Box 8, no. 6 (CM 19 fig. 9)
Box 8, nos. 1 + 5 + 7 + 11 (CM 19 fig. 9)
Box 8, nos. 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12 (CM 19 fig. 10)
Box 7, nos. 2 + 3 (CM 19 fig. 11)
Box 18, fragments 1+ 2 (CM 19 fig. 11)
Box 1, no. 2 (CM 19 fig. 11)

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