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Gurney MSS 2.09
Title
Gilgamesh
Date(s)
- 1917 - 1975 (Creation)
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1 folder
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(1911-2001)
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Gilgamesh:
Correspondence:
- Correspondence from Driver, G. R. (1 postcard / ? 1957).
- Correspondence from Lambert, W. G. (1 letter / 1 February 1975).
- Correspondence from Wiseman, Donald J. (1 letter/ 10 October 1951).
Notes:
- Transliteration of texts KAR 115+A, KAR 122+A, KAR 123+A, KAR 124+A, and KAR 135, from Epopée de Gilgameš - Sixième tablette - Version d'Assur.
- Notes from Oberhuber.
- Newspaper cutting of an image of a 17th century embroidered pillow case depicting Noah's ark.
- Bibliography of Gilgamesh: Sumerian poems, Old Babylonian Gilgamesh, Babylonian texts of the late second millennium BC from sites in Babylonia, Babylonian texts of the late second millennium BC from outside Babylonia, Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic, and Recent translations of the Babylonian texts.
Offprints/Photocopies:
- Borger, R., "Review: Von Soden, Wolfram, Das Gilgamesch-Epos, Stuttgart (1958)", Orientalia 29 (1960), p. 345-346.
- Diakonoff, I. M., "Review: Böhl, Liagre, Het Gilgamesj Epos, Amsterdam (1958); Matouš, Lubor, Epos O Gilgamešovi, Praha (1958)", Bibliotheca Orientalis 18 (1/2) (1961), p. 62-66.
- Frankena, R. "Nouveaux fragments de la sixième tablette de l’épopée de Gilgameš", Gilgameš et sa légende: études recueillies par Paul Garelli à l’occasion de la VIIe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Cahiers du Groupe François-Thureau-Dangin 1), Paris (1958), p. 113-122.
- Matouš, L., "Review: Von Soden, Wolfram, Das Gilgamesch-Epos, Stuttgart (1958)", Bibliotheca Orientalis 17 (3/4) (1960), p. 188-189.
- Renger, J. "Notes brèves, 14: Gilg. P ii 32 (PBS 10/3)", Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale 66 (1972), p. 190.
- Speiser, E. A., "Gilgamesh VI 40", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12 (1) (1958), p. 41-42.
Facsimiles:
- Photocopies of tablets from Langdon, Stephen, The epic of Gilgamish (The University Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section 10 (3)), Philadelphia (1917), plates LXIII-LXVIII.
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